Blue


Blue is the colour of the sky.

Blue is the colour of people’s eyes;
Even though they’re truly black.

Blue (or at least a hint of it) was the colour
Of Grandmama’s lips; she lay there, white raiment,
After the final slumber, awaiting...

Blue is the colour of water,
Scratched onto canvas by paintbrush-needles,
Imagined by people for people.

Yet water— true water—is the colour of my soul.