I've been avoiding this
Procrastinating
Actually refusing to acknowledge
Living in an incomplete picture
Breaking the brush that started the drawing
You see
this was one landscape I was never really intended to complete
something I started and was an integral part of at it's inception
and as the years passed, I became less
Less the designer
Less the artist
Less the lead in the pencil and more the rough draft
Less necessary
This was one work of art that grew on it's own
Took on it's own identity and blossomed into it's own original piece
vibrant, dynamic, intense and soothing
Alive with depth
Alluring, energetic, broad
A portrait I started but life took over
and delivered an adult
that resembles me in appearance
but surpasses me in life
A daughter that found herself amidst the rubble of my mistakes
and created a statue of standing
Solid
Unique
and Grounded in Grace
