If My Pen Had a Painter’s Touch
If my pen had a painter’s touch
it would paint dreams of you with words
the dew would draw your face upon the morning flower
Capturing your smile day after day
If my pen had a painter’s touch
I would draw your sweetness instead of syrup
your beauty and nature would become one on the same tapestry
If my pen had a painter’s touch
Your smile would light up the radiant tapestry
your beauty would be the only color on the rainbow’s fabric You’d be the last treasure the wind could ever sell,
The only wonder left for eyes to behold in the sky
If my pen had a painter’s touch
Your sighs of love would melt into time itself
The water of your body would replace the rain
And every season would turn into spring
— P. Stevens