"Anybody can exist, dragging his soul around behind him like a worn-out coat; but living is different.
It can be hard, but it can also be fun; there’s so much going on all the time that’s new and exciting.”
-E. R.Braithwaite

Thursday, December 1, 2011

Figure Ground

Colour, colour, which colour do you choose?

Pretty cherry red
Thick warm chrome
Viscous Maroon
Royal purple?

There is an invisible canvas onto which we drip:
Indifferent lives; motley hues
Running into each other for a flash of a lifetime.
Blending, mixing, flowing, fading…
Winding in and out
In the web of life.

What would life be without the Master’s strokes?
We'd just be long, lonely highways
Running alongside endlessly,
Never meeting;
Going nowhere.

In the bigger picture
It matters little 
what colour you were
or where you came from
or where you were headed--
What matters is the trail you traced,
Blending, mixing, flowing, fading…
Linking the parts to make a whole.

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