Paint A Picture Poem by Tina MacAdam

Let me paint you a picture, on canvas of white. The contrast is brilliant. Using a vibrant shade of red. Let me draw on the canvas with my fingers, one line at a time. Let it drip and run freely, nothing holding it back. The once white canvas, now changed into a painting of a scene from my mind. Something I want to share with the world. It says something, without words. It has a meaning like no other. But no one else understands it but me.

Let me paint you a picture on a canvas of white. The darkness that covers it runs off onto the floor. the walls. all around the room. The black drips from everything. Covering the room, so no one can see what has happened here before. The black hides everything. much like dark, the night. it will be nothing more than a memory

Let me paint you a picture, it will all be a lie. The colors are mixed much like my feelings. they run together like my emotions. In the end it will all become a mess of colors and feelings, like red on white. my hands are stained by colors that run freely from within me.