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Divergence

September 20, 2013
By lvuyhsaknz BRONZE, London, Other
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Second star to the right and straight on till morning!

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‘It’s so depressingly ugly,
He’s disgusting
I just don’t understand.’
It distresses them.

I feel the misery.
I coat myself in the deep purples and blacks.
Reach through the gilded frames,
Climb out,
And leave inky impressions on the gallery floors.

I trace the Braille
Of the oil mixture.
And the fibres,
Refract up to my brain.
And I bear that reassuring pain.

I see through the grotesque and strange.
I find the beauty
Through the clogged arteries
Of paint, lyrics, negatives, tears.

For as one once said,
‘Art is to disturb the comfortable,
And comfort the disturbed.’

© Shanon G., Elgin, SC

The author's comments:
This poem was based on my experience with severe depression- and how art and poetry helped me to express this and get better, and how some can't see through the ugly, and reveal the beautiful.
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