And Maybe (Portrait of Self, 2025)

 

Portrait of Self, no. 1

June 2025, mixed media on paper

18" x 24"

 

 

And maybe,

maybe you can explain to me one day

why life hurts the way it does

why the tiny flecks of hope that once lived in these eyes 

stopped glimmering

 

And maybe,

maybe on an evening sometime in late summer

when we are sitting before a crackling fire along the coast

watching rising ribbons of flames and dancing embers

you can take these hands

and keep them safe for a long while. 

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