Indigo Blue - Doug von Koss

[Larry Robinson]

Indigo Blue
 
Must it always be this way?
  The heart blood red, always red
  hot and thick and steamy?
 
I know the hearts on fire today
  passion, courage, fierce rhythm and heat
  but tell me, can’t the heart just once
  find another color
 
Green maybe
  as winter moss just after the rain
  or the green of chamomile just before it blossoms           
 
The green of jasmine leaves 
   flowing through the eyes
   then through my heart 
 
Or maybe the heart can be butter yellow
   the yellow of a whole pound of it
   at a Sunday breakfast with friends
 
And why not a heart sun yellow
  as beautiful and full of hope as that
  single chrysanthemum corsage
  at the homecoming dance so long ago
 
It’s primary, this thought
   a green heart, a yellow heart, and yes
   a heart vermillion red
 
But they won’t do for me today
   Today is more complex
   I need a blue I cannot name
   a blue from another place
 
No, don’t give me your sky blue of a western afternoon
  Full of soft birds and wind
  And forget yours flowers of violet and periwinkle
 
If I can’t do red today
   I’m farther still from soft blue petals
 
My heart today is that other blue
  darker than blueberries crushed underfoot
  and darker than grapes
  abandoned on the vine
 
This is a blue past midnight
   almost past caring
   try indigo blue heading to black
 
Today my heart filled with
   sorrow, pain and helplessness
   hidden from light and growing dark
   is indigo blue heading to black
   a blue so dark, even God can’t see it clearly   
 
My country is being torn apart 
    And I am unable to stop the madness
 
Yes, my heart is indigo blue
   today 

	- Doug von Koss
 
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