Lines
June 9, 2008How do you draw a line?
Is it just a vertical, horizontal or slanting streak of ink?
How do you draw a line,
straight, forward or backward?
Or is it just a figment of the corners of my mind?
Something abstract concocted by the eyes and the brain.
A black blotch of the gray matter.
Effaced and bounded by the human psyche.
Put up as walls to encapsulate parts into a whole.
It can be dotted, straight, circular,
going round and round infinitely.
Nothing even stopping it.
Drawn closely and interwoven it forms
a shape, a face empty and desolate.
Increase the filling and add more lines,
it makes a distinct appearance
on the blue glaze of the smooth face of a mirror.
Forwards and backwards, forwards and backwards.
Locking time within its surface,
throwing a lasso line into a fragmented memory.
Slowly tracing its sinewy blithe figure,
the line rears in the shattered pieces.
Piece by piece from different realities.
How do you draw a line?
