Monday, March 24, 2014

Rikki Peters: A Painting for You

Proudly, I declare:
“I made this for you!”
A painting so full of color,
And bursting with energy.
A piece of my very soul.

But you steal the brush from my hands
And carefully correct the imperfect lines
extracting the life I injected lovingly into the canvas
and made something so mechanical; cold.

“There!” you say, grinning,
with such an upward tone in your voice.
Unaware of how grotesquely you corrupted
 a simple gesture of my love.


1 comment:

Unknown said...

Great poem. I'm not sure I can make any suggestions for improvement without "extracting the life" that you have put into it, hahaha.