Coloured Pencil on Paper
H:22 cm x W:22 cm
2022
'The greatest changes stem from the darkest experiences. We fall apart to become new. We go through the dark to fly in the sun.' Matt Haig
Below is the poem that I wrote in tandem with making this drawing.
Leaving A Piece of Youth
By Amanda J Palmer
Gleeful ignorance, my greedy little hands
Snatch you
And press your white petal wings like a flower
Into that book
When I open the pages there you lay
Pinned
Your spiral tongue rasping the dry paper
You taste death and so can I
Our eyes bulge to behold the evil I have done
We pity each other
You fly on now and I am left with the remains
Of knowing
Decades have passed
Now I taste death again
It fills my mouth with the tang of a long
Bitter run
May cabbages be planted
In the field where you lay
Consumed
So you might take to the sky again my love
On white wings
And live