WHEN MAN IS BLUE
He stood alone to let the blue go by
And waited half impatiently
For longer than he would dare admit
And yet the blue went on
It always passed before
I have always mastered every test
Outlasted some, blasted them or damned them
Until they fell submissive at my feet
Why won’t the blue go by
This time
I no longer understand
Where is my power to control my fate
Have I lost my grip
I see others fly on ahead
While l am at this intersection
Waiting for the signal to go on
When the blue will pass
And I can go on again
I know that blue and other blues
I’ve analyzed them, crystallized them
Written about them
Hung them in my spacious mind to dry
And can name all the varied aspect
of their hues in most elegant and scientific words.
What’s that you say, my friend
You say I think too much
Seek too hard to understand
Is that not man’s greatest gift
To think
What’s that you say
That man is brain but God is love
That God is love and he who lives in love
Will live in God
And God in him.
It makes no sense to me
For I’m not God
I’m only man
And man is bound to seek his fate
By the sweat of his brow
By the power of his mind
His indomitable mind
His will to succeed
Alone he stands against his blue
Around his blue, between his blue
His blue which this time will not go away
Not by itself
And so far not by the power of his mind
His powerful mind
His indomitable mind
It will not go away
What nonsense
All I need is time to sort it out
To let my mind work on it
Until the blue disintegrates
And I’ll go on as I always have before
With my mind in control
My powerful mind
My indomitable mind
He knows no other way to break
The sea of blue that will not go away
Not by itself
Not by his powerful mind
His indomitable mind
But the blue is his
His prize possession now
He owns it
For he is the blue
Himself the blue that will not go away
His mind
His powerful mind
His indubitably indomitable mind
The blue that will not go away