The Painter
I am an old artist. I was living in no place, no time and no light. All I had was a paint pallet and a brush.
Once, I perceived a white spot in the dark and I walked towards it.
"It's a semi circle" I said.
I hurried and when I got closer I could see that it was a sphere: one semi sphere of black words and another of uninked papers. It was breathtaking and ostensibly what I was looking for.
Feeling excited, I took my paint pallet to make all those meaningless words alive by giving them meaning.
"Ocean" was the first. I closed my eyes and imagined an endless blue. I picked a brush and started to shape my imagination on paper.
"Soil" was the next. I painted it in brown.
Then, "Plants"
"Green would be a perfect choice." I thought.
I felt so tired and I needed to take some rest but that gloomy ceiling needed a light.
So, "Moon" and "Stars" were my next paintings.
I fell asleep over all those names. When I opened my eyes, it was still dark. I got the word on which I lay my head. It was "Sun". I painted it in bright yellow and hung it in the sky to light up the...the..."World".
My world needed residents. I wanted to try something different , I added all colors together and I masterfully painted the "Man".
Animals, Air, Years Seasons...I painted all of them one by one.
"Done!" I said while putting down my pallet and brush to relieve my shoulder. I took some steps backwards to watch them all from a distance. It was beautiful but all those colors seemed so colorless, there must have been something missing, the most important thing.
Lost in thought, I saw there was one last word and one last piece of paper.
Holding "Love" close to my chest, I thought about the shape and color of love.
Edited by Gowaart
A fish doesn't need diamonds,
Harry Winston Ruby Slippers,
Lamborghini Veneno,
Or care for iPhone
It doesn't hunger for Zillion-dollar breakfast,
Diamond Martini
Or hot bikini
It doesn't need to brag,
Or have a yen for Hermes Birkin handbag
All it needs is some water to survive
And an endless ocean to live
Don’t pick your star
Once upon a time
There was a petite boy
Living in a petite town
He used to ride his bike to the sky
to look for his own star
One day he took his basket
Waited for his star to come out
Asked the night to unmask it
He saw a white light
Turned pedals to the night covered sky
He picked his star
It made his world city of light
But, alas, the light was fading away as the days were passing by
The city of light
Turned to the city of non-white
He got the star
And put it in the bike basket
Tears were running down on his cheeks
"Why?" nobody had asked it
He put back his star
Back in the sky
And it shined so bright
He came back on the earth
The climate was depressed
His mood was dark as the night
But his night had a star
No matter how far
He knew that it was where it belonged