Paint a Picture Black and Gray

Pull out the easel set the canvas positioned long and slender clean slate. Sketch the figures huddled and dark-bound hostage to charcoal-cooled coals etching in shadow images; Faceless entities slipping in and out the background earth-toned sojourners accepting, alone, quiet, dying; Still the images in silence hard and disfigured grotesque horrors in place; Somber soul-drained eyes skeletal socket holes buried in the heart and mind; Let tears fall down their cheeks in wonder, awe, and fear of what happens next. Acrylic primers dilute the wash in the storyline flaking and cracking tearing each soul and truth away; Polyptych blended burnish bleeds quiet, soft exuding whimpered cries, asking why; Chiaroscuro collages of death from life fading to diluent breaths the heartbeat of an unholy silence; Graded gouache monochrome scraper boards releasing sfumatos of singularities communal lives sacrificed Varnish the final rendition camouflage the realities, the actuality of what it represents, Time immemorial in genocidal atrocities of Native Americans, Cambodians, Hawaiians, Jews, Rwandans, Bosnia, Darfur,. When does it stop? The never-ending list life is more precious than this until change comes Paint the Picture Black and Gray pray then act.