Our Painting

we painted a painting, you and I

and since painting is art

my feelings grew

I did the most for I was too gentle

and not able to tell you to do more

your brazenness still helped me

and you showed me what water was

by painting waves, froth, and stillness

and what you painted of the water

is what I remember most

now we have a painting

a ferocious tiger, caressed up to his legs

by swaying water

yet the rest of him was running high in clouds