Tide

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I am blue.


That is not to say I am always this way. I tide, my mind ebbs and flows with the pull of moons.

Some are known to me. I watch their surface, plot their course on velum and slate.

Others escape me, even now. I feel their tug, the widdershins march towards something half-dreamed, half-drowned.

The journey is turbulent at times, butter soft at others.


But today I am blue.


That is not to say I am wrapped in the sticky shadows of misery, pierced by onyx and azure spears.

It is not the indulgent drip and drizzle of melancholy.


I am simply blue.


It is cool here. It is quiet. There is tension, but it is that of a held breath, a drawn out note. The exhale will come. The song will conclude.

Until then, I float.


The world is an ocean.


And I am blue.



Brandon McWilliams