Red Waves by Julia Kajari

Listen: 

Can you hear the ocean washing away the tide? How the waves make different sounds? 

I stop. 

I thought you had turned away 

but in fact you got washed away 

far in the deep blue sky. 

Wait. 

I look closer to see the sky is actually green a really ugly shade that 

makes me wonder if you ever had to fade to fit in. 

I shiver as a wave touches my feet. 

I am shocked to see it’s not a wave 

but blood 

caressing my skin. 

Metallic scent in the air 

a dead fly buzzing in my ear 

it’s suffocating how there’s not enough air and I’m beginning to 

faint. 

I think I saw you amidst the green 

a really ugly green that 

devoured your face. 

Listen: 

I think I might have been the one 

painting everything red. 

Sorry for the stains 

but you were too careless to say 

or even just to stay 

so what’s the point anyways 

if you never listen?