Mixed Media Meditation

There is fear
in etching out an honesty
for you to savour.

Flavour fades
and moods sway

but in this very second
an anonymous arousal

may fill your silence
engaging a quickening pulse

eyes following the trail
that will welcome you

provoke you,
to follow that pull

Of an open hand.

Strokes of colour
and charcoal smudges
uniting on a
weathered canvas

triumphs and tragedies,
reaching for each other.