i am to be kept hidden, like the painting you are least proud of.
while you show off your other masterpieces, i will be hidden away.
while everyone is complimenting your worst paintings, i will be hidden away.
while you give the other paintings the spotlight, i will be hidden away.
while art critics wonder where you keep your best painting, i will be hidden away.
because although i am not pretty like the other paintings, i am your best painting.
the one you are least proud of.

you are the world’s best painter.

and i am your best painting.

but no one sees me.

for you are not proud of me.

i'm not pretty like the other paintings.

i am dark.

i’m not perfect like the other paintings.

i am flawed.
and while everyone knows that they aren’t seeing your best painting, they applaud you for how beautiful they are.
they can not see the beauty of darkness.

they can not see the beauty of flaws.

but you can.
you’ve always been able to see my beauty.

and that is why you are not proud of me.