Azure Skies
Author: K. Persephone
Notes: This was written for an assignment in my creative writing class. We had to write a poem that introduced us to the rest of the class by giving an example ofour personality. We were given a list of words that we had to use, as well: azure, muddy, exact, palm, history, destiny, prevail, guide, and refined.

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Azure skies are gone
and yet, I feel at ease.
The fog has overtaken the landscape,
muddying the edges,
all sense of exactness gone.

I place my palm
against the clammy coldness
of the window.
The wind rushes past
through a haze of history.

My breath on the glass
makes a new kind of cloud
and, as I think of how we are destined
to prevail upon ourselves,
the curtain opens up ahead, guiding us on.

The sunlight seems clean
and refined as it slowly filters
through the tough fabric.
We break free at last,
and I alone feel on edge.