Blues Selamanya

She once stood by a cliff

The ocean breeze calming

Behind her thousands of miles away

The voices and burdens

In front of her

The limitless cobalt blue

Sparkling and beckoning

Beauty and hope

What a way to leave everything

One small step

And she would be nothing but waves

How she wished the water would swallow her whole

Today she stood on soil

Hope and beauty buried in the Earth

Her hands browned by effort to stay uproot

Gravity forcing her down

She looked down to her soiled feet

How she wished she took that step