Turquoise

At the outer fringes of the cold spectrum,

lies a different kind of colour concoction.

An unlikely sibling within the blue family:

the jovial one, the glass-full optimist,

a combination of misplaced wavelengths:

the sunny, refreshing juice of a citrus,

squeezed over the aching blue heart of a hopeless poet.

Somehow, you made the combination work.

But although you may be the one that got away from the gloom,

you never strayed too far.

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