Requiem For An Artist
A requiem for an artist
was painted on a man's mind
This artist attempted to change the world
to heal it from inside
The man took the brunt
of all of her messages of hope
She sent them ostensibly to him
to help him cope
But really what the artist wanted
was just to be heard
To not be a blank portrait
Overlooked, unheard
The artist tried to heal the world
to heal her own pain
To push back the dark
hold on to love, to resist being insane
The man reflected he understood
He showed that he heard that she cared
The man was going through personal growth
so some of the exchange scared
The man now has the knowledge
that the world is his to create
The artist knows the two met
as if an act of fate
Perhaps the world will heal
Perhaps it will continue on
Perhaps the man and the artist are more closely drawn
A man received the insightful rantings of an artist who paints the world.
And because of this, another artist exists.
Requiem for an Artist - Artimus 2/2001 (C) Susan Manley
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