You think the world would love you better without your holy edges, without your bleeding wounds and unsightly want. You think the world would love you better but it's just the world.
The grass is soft and holds the ants and parasites and wolves. The wind is gentle and topples mountains the same as it steals breathe. The ocean remembers you, the sea consumes. You are not so tall and not so new.
You think the world would love you better but the world has eaten as much as it's given. the world’s great beauty is a mirror and an indifference to all your burning parts. the Sun is graceful. the Sun is deadly.
We inherit tragedy from hunger but the world would love you better no more, no less, than it will bare you. And it will, and it will.
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[Image description: traditional art of a pink axolotl floating in blue water, looking happy. It's surrounded by smiling yellow stars. End ID.]
Acrylic markers, watercolour, watercolour pencil, and gel pen :)
This drawing is Glazed. My unGlazed art is available for Ko-Fi supporters!
for the global strike, I painted a scene from pre-Nakba Palestine with the colors of the Palestinian flag. from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.
here is the reference photo I used, which I downloaded from the Palestine Photo Project. it is a view of Bethlehem in 1945.
‘waltz of the flowers’ by tchaikovsky but played on a gramophone as you and your partner slow dance in your living room. (youtube)