black and blue

black and blue
i tattoo your memory onto my skin
for all the times we smiled and sighed
laughing at all the pain we were in
the days we traveled across foreign lands
your former home
through a field of poppies
to show you the throne of goodness i imagined for us long before reality set in
what came to pass
when we both thought we would last through the rainy days and crashing waves
before we broke off into black and blue
to drown in the ocean.