rose blue

purgatory is a

lonely rose garden

full of roses

tinted with

sapphire blue

impossibility.

far away from

the red of hell

and the

white of heaven.

hell is made of thorns

and heaven is made of petals

and purgatory has both.

trapped in a wall of

blue roses and black thorns.

impossible to escape

no one to talk to.

all you have

are those blue roses

and over time

you start wishing

for the red,

or anything, instead.