So, paint me on canvas
and I'll scribble you
in my little notebook
with references on your character
filling the margins like water
overflowing from a class, Incapable
of being constrained by
such a vessel.

Etch me with a pencil,
draw the side of me
that nobody can glimpse
but the artist.
Shade me intentionally
and pure because you
know just what to
do, turning a piece
of paper into life.

I'll make a crude
caricature of you
with lines drawn into
letters that can do
something so beautiful
no
justice
at
all.