Yellow Number Five by Ivan Colon

Yellow Number Five

by Ivan Colon

When Jesus left the planet two thousand years ago/ He said He would be back/when He retrurned He made a home/in this girl I know/with purest eyes/and a heart deep as the sea/Her front porch smells of cinnamon/her home is always warm/but she says she's never known real love/when all that seems constant/shakes her to her knees/please remind her//Oh love that will not let her go/please if you don't mind/just remind her where vou are/and Jesus from Your place inside/reach around and hold her/when it's dark and cold/Now I have never been a fan of artificial any-thing/from banana-flavored candy to that fake plastic wood but I'm just a shadow/of the greatest Man of all/I'll disappear and die apart trom Him/the secret of living/is to live the way He did/I guess that qualifies for imitation//Oh love that will not let me go/please if you don t mind/just remind me where you are/and Jesus from our place inside/reach around and hold me/when it's dark and cold/True love flows trom me/like fresh OJ trom a bottle of Sunnv D/it's all sugar highs and yellow number five/I've been much too long deprived ot everything that's true/real love Hows from up above/when you love the Alan whose hands were nailed down to a tree//Oh love that will not let us go/please if you don't mind/just remind us where you are/and Jesus from our place inside/reach around and hold us/when its dark and cold