Palette Clencher

Love/Fear No. 89

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Every poem in Hearts on the Line stems from an anonymous person graciously answering two questions: “What is my greatest love?” and “What is my greatest fear?” The rest is just my poetry…

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Life Is a Word,

and Love Is a Sentence.



Paint the eyes blacker.

Paint them colder than the shoulders.

And be in the night

of one reviled

by everyone you know.

A mass portrait

to keep you hostage

in its frame.



Is that what you fear?

An image so severe

it could make you disappear

into every little smear.

There’s your brother,

in a corner,

with two pillars

in his forehead.



To be hated

by your favorites

and acquaintances

alike

has a sting

and a drowning.

Let me know what it

is like.



And there, fully painted.

Let’s put this one away

and find all the other colors

and another fitting frame.

‘Cause black is just a color

although I feel the paint,

and there is always a new canvas

for your life to brush against.



Thank You

to the Human Spirit…

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I would be grateful if you shared your own love and fear on this link…

It’s anonymous and could lead to the next poem!

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