Drawing a Picture of You Or Me
I was drawing such a picture, it had no object,
actually it made no difference though
if it becomes you while I was drawing myself
or it becomes me while I was drawing you
I filled every corner of the canvas with all the colors I have
but there was neither of us found in the composition,
is it because the canvas is too small?
In this false reality, as time passes, a heavy layer of fog
rises to cover the canvas, to obstruct my view
in order to see the other side of the fog
I bought a canvas higher and wider than the sky
and placed it on an easel, wishing to find your or my face
in there
then poured light and bright colors on the canvas
to remove the blanket of thick fog, but it didn’t do any good;
I walked though the dense fog searching for you and looking for myself, but all these efforts went for nothing. Only the time passed like rolling water in the great river
then, now, all oils are gone
therefore no way to fill the remaining empty space
on the canvas and in this space, I saw the shape actually
formless passing through
passing the time in such a way,
in the form that is shapeless,
I saw you and me moving along in the crowd
though I didn’t draw nor you drew, in the blank
of the canvas.
Copyright © Su Ben | Year Posted 2015
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