Tuesday, 14 May 1991

Pictures


‘A sunset’, said the artist
As he put his easel down;
Mixing paints before he started
To reproduce earth’s crown.
 
Blood red streaks of pain
Around a crimson sun,
A vision that won’t remain
While indigo clouds convene.

Existing in a fiery glory
Like joy before the fall,
An epilogue to the final story –
But life’s not like that at all.

The canvas burned with colours,
A life beyond our reach;
Skies blended with one another –
The unity we seek.

A stranger saw the picture
While passing on his way,
And said ‘a fine depiction
But the sky I see is grey’.

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