Why
Does the eye
Seek out beyond the blue of the sky
a piddly bit of water blue?
Hey, I just saw the lake!
There’s no shortage of blue, trust me.
So why one blue and not the other?
Sky and water, mother and daughter,
use sunlight to display their bluey hues.
Sky absorbs and becomes the light.
Water reflects – it’s having none of it;
sunglasses in place
upon a stony face –
“You think you know me? You don’t know me.”
Hey, lake!