Not Blue

I.

You asked, "What color is the sky?"

I said, "You know as well as I.

It's blue, the shade of tears and dreams,

Of blood and love and lovely things."

You said, "I know more than you do.

The sky is every shade but blue.

It's red and green and brown and pink - 

It's every color you can think -

But never has the sky been blue."

I didn't speak.  I didn't say

I thought you were as mad as day

Is long.  But still it's in my mind,

The day my cosmos ceased to rhyme.

I didn't understand it now,

Because of you, your theories how

The sky had lied - had lied to me,

And given you reality.

II.

The silence asks, "Where are you now?"

I have no answers as to how

Reality just let you go

With nothing left to see or show.

Nothing left of tears and dreams,

Or blood and love and lovely things.

Just one same house with different paint

And thoughts I've learned to love to hate.

No, none of love and lovely things.

I never speak, I never say

Because of you and that one day - 

When you and sky blue went away - 

That day I learned Reality

Will lie to every man and me.

The Sky And The Sea

Clipart by Microsoft Office

The fifth day of voyage dawned bright and clear

And she whispered the story soft in my ear

As the Sun flew low o'er the horizon red

She told me how the Sea and the Sky were wed

How the Sea and Sky were wed

The Sky had used the waters for his looking glass

But he had never noticed what a lovely lass

That the Sea had become when Time first began

To run, and run as fast as he can

And run as fast as he can

The Sea would use the Sky to help her dye her gown

And the Stars at night would form her watery crown

But she'd never seen the Sky for what he really was

Only blue for her shift, and black for her gauze

Only black for to make her gauze

But as Time began to race and the mortals to move

The Winds would get restless and disapprove

Of staying on land for very long at once

So they swirled and swept away, away to their hunts

Away, away to their hunts

The hunts led them on to the Sky and the Sea

Where the freedom was right, where the freedom could be

And as the Winds played wild in their newfound home

The Sea saw his clouds, and the Sky her foam.

Saw his clouds, and he her foam

The Winds were witness to the marvelous sight

When the Sea gave up her waters to the Sky's pure light

And then, because he loved her, he returned it to her

And rain fell between them, and all over the Earth

Between them and all over the Earth

The storm continued on for three nights and three days

And the Sky and the Sea were colored all the same grays

So the Winds, when they looked, couldn't tell them apart -

'Soon it will be, as we see, they will share the same heart.'

Soon they would share the same heart

Their whispers still echoed on the fourth day's morn 

When the Sky and the Sea, so faded, so worn,

Were lit by a burning, great circle of red

That froze at the point where the Sky and Sea were wed

At the point where the Sky and Sea were wed.

So the Sea would cradle one half, and the Sky would hold the other

While the Stars would gaze upon it, their heavenly brother,

And whisper to themselves, 'They do share the same heart,

For when they both hold the Sun, we can't tell them apart.'

They couldn't tell the Sky and Sea apart.

Thus the Sky and Sea were wed at the start of Time,

And never again will there be such a rhyme

As the one that she gave on the fifth day at Sea

When she spoke about the heavenly wedding to me

About the heavenly wedding to me.

Poem - Titanic Pride

Picture from Microsoft Office 

It's intriguing to think

Of what happened to sink

A ship the size of Titanic;

To be crashed by a rock

Must have been quite a shock 

And the people must have gone manic.

Just a quiet old thing - 

How on earth could it bring

Such grandeur to such great destruction?

The jewel of the seas

Down on its metal knees

Through ignorance of one small instruction:

"Don't taunt the unknown

For it flies and has flown

To the seat of man's unmanly pride;

And the smallest of stones

Will break folly's bones

And the past won't forget what you tried."