Love Poem: Creating
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Written by: Angela Douglas

Creating

If we’d had the opportunity to paint together in the past
whatever we would have made with the frayed bristles 
of our brushes would likely have reflected both our flaws
autistic art unable to attend to its own subject matter
finding themselves without a place 
within the museums of this woeful world’s walls
In a way I regret what I put onto canvas 
when I was still capable of creating 
considering the sorry state of this gallery 
in which they will hang long after I am gone
though if your heart is set and your happiness 
depends on the undertaking of such a collaboration 
I’m sure there’s other amenable artists 
out there somewhere whom you should be seeking 
instead of wasting your time sticking around 
this sterile studio where all the pigments have dried up