Eyes drawn blank from the pained portrait
Staring back at me, shimmer in and out
From the offset of these listless lids;
Twin lighthouses through speckled fog

A flippant form, convalescing from
The fractures converging to every
Broken promise born within,
Flitters forth towards abject abandon

A question grows out of the pockmarked
Black, dissolving into tendrils beneath
Seeking hands of rigid architecture;
Two stones lost to the stoic creek

Muted colours in disparate geometric
Shapes—sail across uneven ridges of
This earthen canvas, searching for the
Brush that bore them to become Art