wearing the blues

I have been wearing the ocean all day

home to my monsters and my dolphins

Dancing to the beat of a moon thousands of miles away

constantly in motion

I feel as though I’m always short of breath

mood swings overtake me

waves syncopate to fleetingly embrace the beach

then tempestuous walls of water rise and fall

Constraints can’t contain me

I fight to break free

entwining both facets of my soul

the world turns into a mix of greys and greens

and the sea is never the same shade of blue again.

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Illustration is an original painting by Shraddha Rathi titled "Origin 6".