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Azure Nights

Esme Davidson

Poetry

Clouds cry
With the blink of a thousand eyes
Rolls an azure blanket from the sky
She covers me tonight,

Swimming lakes and oceans wide
To run through every inch of mine
She binds my body with water bonds
Bound to dissolve when life is gone.

Imbued with her; I stand today.
Three quarters of the human state,
Made whole by land and sea and sun
Life negated by how she runs

Rivers arteries alike,
Tracts to race in tandem with life.
With every breath she’s by my side,
Returning to the world alive.

While I sweat she hugs my pores
The way waves cling to ocean shores;
Each tear of mine becomes the sky
Waiting for those azure nights.

Esme Davidson, UoB Intercalated Medical Humanities programme 2023

Photograph by Georgina Sowman