bleach

and i saw her eyes drained of their blue blue washed away like dirt like love like the tears that rinsed her eyes robbing their azure kingdom stealing its treasures leaving only the pale blue that makes you sad sad because it longs to be more not a pale content with its lack of saturation a pale that cries out for color and finding none knows only to continue hoping against despair a light in the darkness a pale blue cold like the skin of a corpse of a thing once living now only a shattered fragment of what it once was: Beauty all washed away by a river of tears unending until the Blue had all washed away and Life deserted those pale eyes and their bearer undeserving of the grief that robbed her undeserving of the litany of Man of Woman of Pain

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