Perception

The picture you’ve painted inside of your mind
Isn’t the same as the one inside mine
We look at each other dead in the eyes
But the pureness inside of a heart cannot lie

Your pencils are sharpened and lined in a row
You scar up the page with your hand full of charcoal
You close your eyes to focus your sight
To keep drawing your world of black and white

I love you or I love you not
It’s what you learn or what you’ve been taught
I am wrong and you are right
All in your world of black and of white

And then it hit me straight to the heart
A kind of pain that could tear me apart
A light that appeared amidst a dark night
A slight change of mind not a pencil could write

Never will you see me the way that I do
You draw my skin white and you know that’s not true
My heart is a red, full of love and of life
But you drew it in shades of grey, black, and white

I love you and I love you more
Learn through mistakes, that’s what they’re there for
I am wrong but forgiveness is right
That’s what I see in my colorful sight

This is such a valuable lesson
All about what we can see through perception
So I urge you to carefully look at your sight
And let’s all put some color into our pallet of life

After all…

The picture you’ve painted inside of your mind
Isn’t the same as the one inside mine
But as long as you can open your heart
You will make the most beautiful, colorful art