The Artist

Life disappears.
Love is shaky and uncertain,
concluded by a hymn;
A humbling event;
poetry with unmatched familiarity
that conveys emotional gravity
as rare as ascending rain.
An oppressed artist,
defined by one single response;
A tortured artist gained passage
to a new life
carved by pain and fear
where, when seen by children-
innocent recipients of torture unrightfully withheld
from the deserving hands-
he is, himself, as a child,
repressed,
yet full of conflict.
Strange and unremarkable,
trapped in a world just as powerful
as pain being delivered.
His own thoughts
drawn out in black and white,
imagination imprisoned,
disappearing slowly.
Beaten,
Until there remains nothing but
an empty poet.