For You Blue

Abstract

On my desk there’s a picture of myself at five or six years old, walking through a park in deep autumn. I’m dressed in a deep blue sweater while my dad in a faded green vest walks beside me. Taking the interpretation of “What if…” through a nostalgic reminiscence, the poem is an envisioned conversation of what if I could talk to my past self. If I could communicate with my younger self, I would warn them of the hardships in life ahead and remind him that things will one day be alright.