Into the Blue

 

What does it mean when one says he is blue?

Do colors define the state of the mind?

Must then we describe the shade or the hue?

And what then said if you speak to the blind?

One could be azure, as blue as clear skies,

and end his refrain with eyes filled with tears.

Be he then happy or his heart decries

his lover’s affection now veers.

What then of turquoise or aquamarine?

They’re hues of blue and fair to behold,

but no sage nor saint would know what you mean

if that was the aura you said that he showed.

Blue hues may perfect on flowers or walls

but blue said of psyches may render shortfalls.

 

    Sonnet by James Cox’s, The Essence of Jim.