Faces & meaning,
the artist offers answers
in his canvases:
a woman’s thick, black robes
cannot completely express
the turmoil her creator bears.
He points the words
Come See Mother
Come See Mother
Come See Mother
like urgency is bleeding
from his brush;
a final plea
for his creator.

But even though the painting
wanders in the minds of many
days after they have looked upon its majesty,
the artist leaves his disconnect
his frustrations
his screams
on the canvas.
Putting the brush to bed,
he steps away, fulfilled,
like the tails at the end of a scream…

only to unknowingly alleviate the young girl
who walks into the gallery,
like a child raiding the fridge for milk
in the middle of midnight,
only to find it and a plate of chocolate chip cookies
left out
*just for her.