Blue

found him at
the side of a road
leading nowhere

approached him
cautiously
stealthily..

silence.
something was
wrong

horribly wrong
worse than i could imagine,
wrong.

he said nothing.

i hate the fact that they were
hauntingly
beautiful,

his eyes, i mean.
my instinct told me to
run away

but i gaped
wide-eyed
at the faded blue

stood
still
in my tracks.

he said nothing.

i reached out to
wrists
bound with red

held them tightly..
the fragility
of his hands

breathed the frigid frost
in
out

observed,
watched,
in quiet.

he said nothing.

"hello
are you okay
hey

you're bleeding
um
how can i help?"

downcast blue
gloomy blue
forlorn blue

refuse
to look at me
blue.

he said nothing.

i noticed the
glaring
menacing light

eminating from
cold, harsh
steel

"what
have you done
hey, answer me"

took his blade
threw it down
into the snow

he said nothing.

pulled out a pair of
warm mittens
made of love

"put these on
they'll keep you
warm"

he was cold,
unmoving.
but blue

softened,
vulnerable blue,
unprotected blue.

he said nothing.

traced the thin line
of his lips
with a finger

"talk to me"
i knew that i
was probing

but he deserved
to be
heard

bloodied, scarlet fingers
grasped mine
but still,

he said nothing.

drip
drop
drip

red continued
to soak
the blanket of white

so i helped
bandage
his wounds

pleaded with
my eyes
"please"

he said nothing.

but he opened
his mouth
and no sound came out

"i have to go soon
so please say
something, anything"

let go of
patched up
pain

turned my back,
readied to
head on home

he said nothing.

what captured me
were his eyes
forever blue

i wanted to convey
what his glance
meant.

but i retraced
my footsteps
that led to home

and at last minute, turned,
looked him in the
eye.

he said nothing.

"i guess
this is
goodbye

don't
do it anymore..
your wrists

are sad,
they're
crying"

then he
tried for a smile
looked up at the sky

breathed, "blue"

Author's Note

Hope it's not too bad...! Er, oh. It's left uncapitalized and stuff on purpose. :>

Reviews

[Shade Teller]

Wow. This was amazing. By far the thing I loved most about this poem was all the imagery that was put into this. By the end I was left with a perfect picture of the whole scene. I like how you use blue throughout the entire poem and how it relates to the title. Again, an amazing job.