People -2005

INTERTWINED

Acrylic on canvas. Private collection.

Intertwined

Lying

in your arms,

Her body measured in fingerprints

and her soul in excuses,

when on waking she finds...

she is living upon the tail end

of somebody else's dream.

Her dreams are not

those sweet things forgotten upon rising,

nor reality forgotten

as she lies there drenched in sleep.

Yet clutched beneath her breast she holds

a bird, perched, waiting to fly...

to places where people hold hands,

not hearts

Karyn

PAPATUANUKU - EARTH MOTHER

Acrylic on canvas. Private collection.