Self-Portrait

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Every day is the same. Every day is here.

Cars. Houses.  People.  Nights.  Days.  

This is the canvas. Year after year. 

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Live your own Van Gogh. 

Be tortured, be driven―go.

Be in love, be lonely, be crazy, be

beautifully focused on yellow.

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Look at yourself looking back.  

See, and feel.

The contours of truth ravage

and the colors of truth heal.

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Bloom late. Be poor. Be undiscovered.

Let the world not know.

You will still have your own

sunflower days and starry nights.

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Find your own yellow.

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4 thoughts on “Self-Portrait

  1. Nice. I’ve been interested in Van Gogh ever since I became interested in impressionistic art; probably 35 years ago. Don Mclean’s song Vincent is devastating, makes you tear up if you know his life story.

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  2. Yes, his whole story is extremely interesting . . . oddly, though he’s clearly a unique genius, I feel like there is something universal about his struggle, his passion, his anxiety and depression . . . for some reason people seem to be able to really relate to him if they get the slight bit of education necessary to understand his life . . .

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