from the mountains into the sea

Purple

Yellow 

Orange 

I was thinking of so many things 

While the sun was painting a backdrop 

I wished to hold onto that order 

Purple 

Yellow 

Orange 

As if nothing else mattered 

Purple 

Yellow 

Orange 

I was in the mountains again 

But now the birds sang 

And my ankles were boney 

Wobbling against the war-zone of stones 

Purple 

Yellow 

Orange 

The snow wasn't stuck to the grass anymore 

But melting away

lone piles of it slumped against wasted rocks

That the mountain had decided to toss away

Purple 

Yellow 

Orange 

I wished to stay here 

up on the hill, 

watching the sun shimmy down through its peaks. 

Purple 

Yellow 

Orange 

Like the way I lined up my socks 

Sometimes the purple ones mate would go missing 

It's pair left to sit lonely in the sock drawer 

Purple 

Yellow 

Orange 

I walked the hill alone 

My stomach empty, my head in control 

The sun seemed to dangle in the sky, 

as if held up by one string

Waiting for the world to blink asleep 

But the birds kept chirping 

Purple 

Yellow 

Orange 

I know how the sun feels 

I feel strung up as well 

My subconscious pulling the strings 

While I'm only left to follow 

Purple 

Yellow 

Orange 

The mountains make me miss the sea 

I miss the beach 

Take me back, back 

to when we walked the waterfront,

salty ocean air cutting through the heat. 

Purple 

Yellow 

Orange 

Maybe I should've jumped 

when you told me we could escape 

"We could go far, into the sea," you told me.

I think that's when i realized, 

Purple

Yellow 

and Orange 

are nothing like the waves 

of 

Blue 

and Green.

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