To The Artist: Paint Me A Brighter Picture

By AC

Take your paint brush and stroke
Deep past the surface
Paint a vivid image
Of this beauty
Without reflecting the pain.
Color me in with ambition
Erase any blemish of worry
Fade away these lines of regret
Make me over
Make me over
Create a new me.
Sit me on the doorstep
Of my Lord
Tell him that this image
Tell him that this image
Tell him that this image was created
Just for his keepsake.
Tell him that this
Tell him that this
Tell him that this is love.
Paint me underneath
Clear blue skies
Tattoo butterflies on
The soles of my feet…
Let them lift me to new heights.
Draw me a new world
Draw me a new world
Sketch me a prophet
And sit him in the
Palms of my hands.
Make the world listen
Make the world listen
Make the world listen to my message
Make them see the beauty…
Make the world listen to my message
Paint me a brighter picture…
Paint me…
A brighter me.

–Dynamite

3 Comments

  1. kmente on January 29, 2014 at 5:20 PM

    Wow. Very powerful.

    Reply
  2. Arius Raphael on February 19, 2014 at 5:59 PM

    Mad respect for your skills, brother.

    Reply
  3. robin mize on February 22, 2014 at 9:42 AM

    This is such an amazing a powerful poem! It is surprising and vivid and moves me to tears.

    Reply

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