A Sea of Color

Oceans of reds, greens, yellows and blues

Colorful tides rolling in and then out towards the comparatively colorless horizon

Flowing, floating, flying into one another

They swirl together forming a sea of color

A sea so expansive and full of so many shades

How could anyone understand them?

They refuse to be understood

They slosh and swirl and mix together

Forming even more shades of infinite complexity

They roil and froth and foam against the shore where I stand in awe

Looking out at this unknowable ocean

This unfathomable sea of color

I wade out into its waters and innumerable hues

It’s warm against my skin like the hand that touches your cheek

And lingers there like a memory

I still feel it there sometimes

It’s cold like the sharp edge of a tear that runs from your eye

Its steely wetness cuts you deeper than any blade

It never healed

I close my eyes and give myself to my sea of color

I do not swim

I do not fight against its current

I wish that others could see it

Its beauty

Its darkness

Its terrible, gentle waves that carry me forever out to sea

I open my eyes and it’s gone

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