The Beauty In Sunken Eye

Enjoy

The Beauty In Sunken Eyes

Paint your painless pictures

a monochromatic pastel

on a skin canvas

blades

your dreaded brush

veins

your borders

scribble like in youth my love

just please

don’t color

outside

the lines

take your caricatures

and cast your brush

sharpen your pencils

smudge your sharpie marks

get out your rulers, and draw

just please

don’t color

outside

the lines

I know I have no say

about your crumbled pictures

how they speak to me

like a vivid constellation

but we all know

those stars are dead

much like the fire

that keeps your borders

slowly

fading to embers

soon

the canvas

will be

a blank page

just please

don’t color

outside

the lines

I’ll bear the weight of the world

on my steadied shoulders

I’ll fight the

gravity

moon

sun

stars

world

and all the ridicule

that comes with it

so take my clean wrists

and draw

draw until you feel whole

draw until your fire combusts

draw until the canvas is full

leave me with a beautiful

masterpiece

just please

color

outside

the lines

so your drawing never fades

and I’ll be

your

still life

forever