Painting for you

I'm painting for you, I'm painting for me

I want to show you the things I can see

It's not about still life or nice scenery

these things I paint are descriptions of me

They're emotions and ideas, moods put in colour

could be music, concern, despair and love

Representations of things I can't find words for

cast in strokes and lines, their speed important

But they come from a place below the surface

a hidden language of things so personal

the past, my pain so many things I want to share

my visions of people, places, ideals, just because

I am testing myself with each brush stroke, each pen

the lines of form, the texture of feeling, emotional colour

I'm exposing a little of my soul for you to share

the beauty of nature of creation and people

Some of it is real but much is a dream, or a hope

I would like to come true, the images hang up

and take on their own life, beyond the strokes

to become more than the sum of their parts

You my friend become part of it too, for when

you say what you like, or could change or suggest

It moulds what I do, leads me down new avenues

I have not travelled before, discovering adventures

I paint for the past and to create a future bold and new

the colours I choose pivotal to the trip

I want you to join me and paint with me too

we'll change the world and make people smile!