from the dark,
     dank walls

          of antiquity’s
               smoky cave


                    to forgotten
                         footprints

                              on the frontier’s
                                   broken edge


                                        shines a beam
                                             from alien gods

                                        worshiped
                                   but misled

 
                            color-swirled
                       inspiration
                  translated
             by the artist


      animated
unto canvass

     a celebration
          to imperfection,


                rays of hope
                     to mortal souls…

                          we are one and all
                                we are one and all