Blue Can't Get Me Down

From this lifting liberation I feel loss

Like a crater taking place here

Emanating endless space here

Yet this caverns not long empty as I fill it up with breath

And the groove that starts to move from

The beating of my breast

Because Blue can’t get me down.

I heal teal

Glow indigo

Aspire to find the sapphire in my tears as

I let them flow

Like midnight waterfalls raining sky blue

Open the floodgates

Make way for the true!

To rule within like cerulean

Let it begin to seep into my skin:

I am royal

& navy

& robins egg blue

I am cyan

& baby

& cornflower too

I twinkle like periwinkle and I shimmer like the sea

I sing the violet song of sirens in the tone of aquamarine

And when I rise

Unto the sky

I return as rain

For the water holds the honor as the blue blood in my veins

Oh the water holds the honor as the blue blood in my veins

Yes, the water holds the honor as the blue blood in my veins

And Blue can’t get me down

-Marie Ebacher, 2020