#1014806 added July 31, 2021 at 3:35pm Restrictions: None
The Color Blue (35 lines/133 words)
the color blue:
markings on a pale wall
by the unhinged door.
gentle notations
rise to meet another
in graphite
on satin-finished trim.
darling with age,
no cleaning agent dare scrub
unless we give this house up.
the first day,
you stood obedient for
an angling stick atop your head.
she reached beneath,
scraped in permanent blue, while
your backpack laid idle
by the closed door.
your brother, three years before,
ascended by graphite.
dark markings intermingle
amid your rising blue.
such hope sends a gaze
reflecting on
those first days,
your noggin and wide open grin,
now foggy mornings of yore.
every marking inked,
as high as it will go,
on the finish with
a final date installed,
I now realize
the potential of you
is a memory,
not the future
anymore.
7.31.21
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To my darlings, Myles, Camden and Madeline, wherever they may yet roam.
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