Spin the Wheel

emerald green.

it's everywhere, this hue

monotone

e v e r y w h e r e

 e v e r y w h e r e

I look this bright, blinding shade

the sky pales

in comparison. Don't compare

the contrast only stronger

despair

the memory of

   (hyperventilating)

colour

   (hyperventilating)

white black blue brown

grey shades of grey

   (hyperventilating)

Stop.

  in   out   in   out   in   out

breathe

exotic

monotonous

brilliant, bright green

tropical leaves so lushly

dazzling under the tropic sun

overgrown

leaves blades fronds tendrils

reach across the ground

sway to and fro and to--

Stay back!

oh, beautiful, like a calendar cover

yes, beautiful

folly folly foliage

once in a lifetime

I won't die here! I won't!

get back, get back--where?

turn, turn your back

emerald green

even the sea

under the colourless caps of foam

green, bright, brilliant

like showers of emeralds, sparkling spray

licking at land

waves, tides

rising, receding, waxing, waning

cycles

rise and fall and rise and fall--

No, stop!

the time, is there no escape?

turn, turn away

this beach

the sand

hot sand bleached, colour leached

fine piping powder

tough soles feet like leather

dry walk, run

left   right   left   right   left--

footprints.

   Can it be?

Find him! Find the one trapped

here with you

not alone, no

the footprints long and narrow

like your feet, your

foot

fits

perfectly.

it can't be, no no no nono

run run run

around the sandy racetrack

lined by emerald green

  salty sea lap-lapping

  foliage rustle-creeping

  heffalumps multiplying

cycles, circles

round and round and round

forwards is backwards is forwards

emerald blur  green green green

a break, give me a break!

the monotony.

scarlet dissolving

on your hands and knees

stinging salt

diluted

gone.

alone.

emerald green--glass

the bottle

that carried my hopes   out

   to sea

paper thin fragile, charcoal smears

corked tight

swallowed by the

emerald

   sea.