it's always dark blue around you,
but i like it,
especially when you're curled up
in the corner, trying to be awake
as i blabber incessantly.
it's pitch black, i figured,
when you pull up that drawbridge
just when i have gotten past the moat,
i don't like it when it's
pitch black, like your scary beautiful
scuba dive.
because i can't swim.