Self Portrait

pencil on paper, 2008, 9 x 12 inches

2010, June 19- July 16: Melodic Imagery, O'Connor MacLeod Hanna LLP Office Building, Oakville, ON

Corresponding poem: Apartheid

The heart bleeds rivers

They flow through the veins

Exploding the exploits of many pains

And rivers form in the soft of the eyes

The heart of the soul cries!

Erasing fears, erasing lies

Wishing love to come as a prize

The heart beats, as the rivers bleed

The soul a sponsor, answers their pleas

And its blood frees to tears in the eyes

To recognize the soul as it cries

and redeem a most worthy prize

the eyes are privy to the soul

as blood spills the secrets of the heart

entombed in my body,

running through my figure,

I figure, you will never know

The outside is blanche as the snow

Clean as a model

Though cobwebs stir inside and fires burn

The blood spills the secrets of the heart

So the soul doesn’t tear apart

There’s apartheid inside

Though it doesn’t show

Let my image be clean as untread snow.