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