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our tree
i don’t know that it’s over,
faith lives within me
that our love still has potential
to someday run freely
like a river over rocks,
we can slip and slide with grace
sitting together in the grass, my
world falls into place.
does yours, too?
or when we are beside each other,
is your world simply blue?
alone, my trees were black and white–
your eyes were the first color i saw.
how ironic that they happened to be
cerulean with pupils dark as a raven’s caw.
sitting in the shade, our intertwined hands feel
sienna and pumpkin pie, the colors of fall
floating in the chilly air
do you not see it?
how can you ignore the roughness of grass on the palms of my hands,
the ringing of church bells in the distance, singing a song just for us,
that cloud – the one that looks like a crocodile – so careless, yet intentionally made for our eyes?
it was made for us
and yet, you’re fading away from me–
you’re dust in my hands, slipping away,
our time cremated to ash when it was once so real–
so human
but even rocks are weathered over time:
like sand, I watch on the shore as
you float away into the ocean
with its crumbled sea dust.
one with the sea,
as blue as can be
and I am here still,
alone with our tree.
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