The Canvas

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    • is doin some Solitary Thinkin-- Lee Ann Womack

    The Canvas

     I contemplate my brush
    its ever so gentle stroke
    steady as my hands stay
    I want to paint me a getaway
    I paint a sunset sky
    with a sweet summer breeze
    It sets off my heart of memories
    Sweet memories no one else can see

    I cry into the colors
    they run down and onto the floor
    My heart sinks heavy
    I know I'll make those memories no more

    If I could only paint your memory
    If I could only paint your sound
    If I could only paint your presence
    My world would once again spin 'round

    Gray becomes the palette
    As the rain comes pouring in
    all the colors faded
    I start to paint again

    I paint the softest blues
    the gentlest of greens
    I try to paint your touch
    but I can't reawaken that dream

    A softer rain it pours
    Like a soothing lullaby
    I pull my brush away
    and I just wonder... why?

    If I could only paint that day
    the one you said you'd stay
    I replay it over and over

    I wash the canvas over.

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    A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. It finds the thought and the thought finds the words.

    Robert Frost (1875-1963) American Poet.

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