See Nothing

Art
in abstraction
allows you to see anything

or nothing at all

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When I See Nothing
I don’t like what I see.
All that is left are feelings

Aquatic Cool Serenity.
Stay there
Stay there
Stay there

Eye tracks left to right;
Feelings flow along.
Can’t stay cool forever

Yes, you can.
Stay there
Stay there
Stay there

The warming purple
muddles head and heart

A transition –
but also a barrier
a fence

a big beautiful border wall
between Cold and Hot
Peace and Passion
Head and Heart

Keep. Them. Apart.
at all costs.

None shall pass.
Stay there
Stay there
Stay there

But the eye tracks right…

Heart refuses to stay
and obey.

Look how long purple
Holds
On

As it flows
into the orange-red heat
of Passion
Pleasure

Pain

I wish I saw
and felt
the warmth there
but I only see destruction

Immolation.

Please,
don’t ask me to See Nothing
Again.

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This is the third poem in a triptych based on this piece of art:

See

See Something

See Nothing