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You’ll never forget the colour of my eyes

When all you do is stay up at night

The twinkle of mischief

And its glassy sadness

Sucked into the void

But never my world

When you’re just a boy

Born with vision that rivals a prophet

A future of brilliance in every mundane aspect

Of a life yet to be lived in

And a body that yearns to swim in its emotions ‘til it infects them

The sky glows radioactively cyan and magenta when it sets

The warm sand beneath my feet look like gorgeous grains of multicoloured TV statics

Every grain a possibility

Before it takes charge and swallows me

I stood too idly in its glory

And now I feel the grains sinking

Too weak to pull out my feet

I see the murky, uncoloured, lifeless muck

Foolish and inattentive

I fell into the wet concrete

But instead of pulling myself up

I became part of the sidewalk

Breathing in gravel

Tasting the dirt

But I can’t move

And people trip over me

Interrupting the flow

They curse the pavement

It’s filled my ears

But I’m not deaf to it

Suffocating under shoes

I’m below all of them

Stepping on my neck

While I already can’t breathe

There I lay

Engulfed in construction

An issue never fixed