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Sea Blue

From the photographs
filled with memories
I put them away
out of sight

So I won’t have to recall
the one who drifted away

This feeling
I will seal it tight—

For perhaps
my heart
would break first

The frosted door
that child once shattered

I matched the fragments
yet the cracks remained

Even covered with tape
and made to look whole
it never returned
to what it was

So—
let me change something

Starting
with the placement of furniture

In time,
sorting through my things as well

And as the days
pass slowly on,
perhaps this feeling, too,
will shift

Within me,
this cold sea—
if a new wind blows,
if warm sunlight
falls through the clouds,

Could I someday meet again
that child
a little grown?

For now,
I am still drifting
beneath the waves—
before I dissolve
into bubbles and vanish,

I will wear
a dress dyed in the sea’s color,
in gentle sea-blue.

                                          Written  by  Soranoiro