GREEN AND BLUE

Her dark, wet hair clung to my fingers
blood caked the tendrils and my hand
I whispered and cooed in her ear
"You'll be okay, you'll be okay."
She was conscious then and she had heard me,
I was sure of it.
She was frightened and trembled beneath me
There was a tightness in my chest
I was scared, too
We were so young.
so alone, so amazed…
Where was Daddy?
The dogs barked at our still forms
Night was coming
Her breathing was shallow

It hurt to hear her gasp
"You're gonna be okay."
Her eyelids shut me off from the blue and green
Her eyes were always my magic
They were speckled yellow, one blue one green
When they stopped peering at me intensely
That is when the tightness in my chest strangled me
I whispered her name hoarsely, my childlike voice
It hung in the air
Dead leaves rustled around us
I suddenly felt so cold.
Would she die?

I brought her to my chest then, held her as close as I dared
I wanted to give her my soul
I kissed her wet with sweat forehead
It was chilled
I don't know how long we stayed there
We were frozen in our own mortality
Daylight was swallowed by night
The dogs stayed near us
They were our guardians
they wouldn't let us die tonight
if they could stop it, they would.
She stirred, very much like sleeping beauty
Though her lips were chaste
Her one green eye and one blue eye
blessed with scattered gold
met my own dirty hazel ones
"Let's get to the house, I bet you're hungry"
the nightmare
it had died with the day
She was awake
stiffly
slowly
We made our way back to the empty house

I cried the entire way and she consoled me
as if I was the victim
as if I was the one that fell
as if I nearly lost myself
We never told my dad
We never told anyone
Children are so fragile
They are so careless
And they are so happy to be alive.