“If the Art is Altruistic”
If the art
is altruistic,
then always
it is healing.
If the art
is altruistic,
then always
it is healing.
The trees don’t regard
their lichens
as eczema.
Every moment of life
a miracle –
never to be understood,
only Known.
Countless stars in the universe,
countless spirits in their World:
and the medium has a telescope.
A bird in the sky,
a dot
on my canvas.
If only I
could paint the sky!
A clear blue sky,
empty, all yin,
on which Somebody then paints
a cloud of yang.
I laugh
with Life.
Laughing,
we Embrace.
Thousands of therapies
– all with but one
intention.
Every tree a Witness,
every branch Testifying.