*Selected as Poem of the Day on the UK Poetry Forum: http://www.thepoetryforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=21127
Familiar Blue
Twin suns beat down
As I make my way
To see your boy
To make sure he’s okay
You’ve been gone so long
But you’re with me still
Kind of blame myself
Think I always will
It’s what keeps me going
After all of these years
After all the regret
After all of the tears
I remind myself
It wasn’t you on that shore
Try to recall the man
That you were before
Hero with no fear
My brother, my friend
But the more I remember
The more I descend
Broken down
And all alone
Tired mind
And tired bones
So I walk the Wastes
But I walk so slow
Afraid I’ll fade away
Before it’s time to go
But when I see his eyes
That familiar blue
I see a new hope
to make it up to you
Another chance
To make it all okay
It’s what keeps me going
From day to day
So I’ll keep waiting
Till the time is right
When the darkness falls
To the blinding light
Till the day the force
Brings him in
To be the man
You could have been
