My sky is blue
Broken-china-blue
Today
Not as yours or his or anyone’s
Not robin’s egg happy-hue
Or hopeful cornflower-color
Not rolling-ocean-peace
No endless expanse
Over a world full of possibility
But my sky is blue
Crying-eye- blue
Today
I don’t remember
The exact color of the car
That took you away
But in my mind’s eye
It should be this blue
My blue
Because my sky was blue
Teardrop-truth-blue
That day
Such a contrived color,
Overused metaphor:
Sad-blue, dead-blue
Burning-blue-gray like my hate
For all the words
We’ll never share
For desperation
For lost beginnings
Estranged from happy endings
And foregone conclusions
And decisions made
By a woman whose pasty face
Is still burned as
A blue-print in my mind
Of the person I
Never want to become
The woman who
Unknowingly
Painted my world
In red-fury and
Burnt-orange-bitter goodbyes
Thoughtless paintbrush
Strokes making sure
That my sky was blue
Crisp-autumn-cloudless blue
That day
When you and I
Were both too young
For understanding
Just
Children caught up
In the real world
For the first time
Yes, my sky is blue
Snapdragon-fire-blue
Today
When seven years later
I think I’m
Still not old enough
To comprehend
Why my sky is blue
Bittersweet-baby-blue
Today
Because they
Took you away
Because you’ll never
Know my name
Even though I’ll
Remember yours
For the rest of my life