from the dark,
dank walls
of antiquity’s
smoky cave
to forgotten
footprints
on the frontier’s
broken edge
shines a beam
from alien gods
worshipped
but unsaid
 
color-swirled
inspiration
translated
by the artist
animated
unto canvass
a celebration
to imperfection,
rays of hope
to mortal souls…
we are one and all
we are one and all