Firmament

I never really knew
 there were
so many shades of blue
(and degrees of separation
from you)
But
I have fallen
(or should I say risen?)
 in love
with these  wide skies
painted
mano-a-monochromatically
at midday
and reinvented each evening
 in hues
so variant and brilliant
and matchless
I stand
speechless 

in the best of ways
and humbled at the
absolute extravagance
(and bereft
because
it too will leave)

Still I stand
firmly rooted in
this transient
red dirt
having
never known

there were
so many shades of blue