Aug 7, 2016 Free Verse, Original Poetry, The Daily Post
Painted World
©August 7th, 2016
By Vijaya Sundaram
If I took a broad brush,
Dipped it in no colour,
Whispered a prayer to the moon,
Bent my head to the sun,
And slashed the air around me,
Would I erase all ugliness
All pain, all horror from the world?
What of all its beauty,
All that pouring light,
All that blinding blue,
All its music and movement,
All of its innocence and joy?
Would I filter its discoveries
Back into my paint-pots
And guard them jealously
So, I could start over?
And what of its ambiguities?
What of its doubts?
What of its struggles?
What of its dreams?
Would I siphon those into tubes
Ready to squeeze out
When things get old
Or tired, or tedious?
And would I be able to paint
A whole new world
From scratch?
And what would I paint?
And what if I were
A terrible painter?
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