An Honest Approach to Greetings

"Hello! How are you?"

"I'm feeling

[I should have you imagine the deepest blue,

   so saturated with a film-like substitute for darkness and nighttime,

      then picture a hue deeper than that,

         then deeper than that. 

Surmise a painting of color so very itself,

   that it resembles less of a canvas to favor an abyss,

      and becomes more like a room than a page.

Where suspended at its center might hang an object,

   a lonely droplet pregnant with a glass-like poise,

      so beyond its somber and fragile reflection,

         there is a deeper nothing.

Yes,

   a nothing bluer than black.

For so long as there was hurting value in solidarity,

   and an ironic subsidy waning in quiet solitude,

      there would be no sharing,

         at least none of authenticity.

Nevertheless,.

I feel that. ]

today."

Having told them, we walked away.