An Artist's Agony

The more I tried to put an image in a blank paper

The more it becomes hazy and unclear

The shadows are black and the paper is smeared

A hand that does not know where to begin nor knows where the end is

A mind floating from the vastness of the sea

I can't seem to see the beauty in an image tried to be created in a canvass lost

I cannot seem to see the light in every stroke and every touch

The darkness engulfs the world once lit up and full of radiance all around

The colors started to fade and one by one, all the pages scattered

And all are blank

All are torn into pieces

All are broken like the hands that once loved them

The sadness hasn't created much of a good thing

My once escape become a stranger to me

The books also started to make me feel guilty of a crime I so admit

There's my sorrow

My despair almost complete but never done with

My hands shake and my mind is lost

I can't seem to see the image in the paper I tried to fill

I defiled it by my passionless and hurting strikes

Like a whip, I hurt the blank pages with my ugly hands

Holding a pencil, a paintbrush or ball-point pen

All the colors have drained and I barely see what I have given to these blank papers

And it hurts, it hurts to lose the one thing one of my hands can do

It hurts much more that I caused it to be

I listened to muffled cry of the sketchpad and the surfaces of which my hands touched

I feel my own torture

An agony in these tears that slowly trickle down my own cheeks

I can't seem to sketch and draw the beauty I once see here

©️8.15.2020