By redplasticroses
Date: 2008 Apr 09
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Watercolors

Watercolors

Spring
time of new beginnings
I have often thought
how different we might be
starting over
meeting for the first time
same restaurant
but wiser
and gentler people
knowing what we know
about life together
and apart
and yes,
the void

I prime a canvas
wondering if it is
possible to start over
go back to the start
a blank canvas
or one that has been primed
the ground thick
and ready
the past buried beneath it
the future open
unblemished
one canvas
two artists
one palette
different mediums

I am tempted
to start without you
just adding
a color
to paint
your taste
your scent
the way your eyes
hold mine
in a world made
for two
and perhaps
I'll add another
the feel of your skin
moist and warm
under my fingertips

I stop
remind myself
that I have
always been
the watercolors
in your life
I wash off
and leave no trace