You are art
You are the reason that God created art in the first place
You are the living definition of “Masterpiece”
You are the reason that the sun rises and the moon sets
Without you there is no life
So allow my hands to trace every inch of you until you’re memorized
So that one day I can tell everyone that I’ve touched greatness
And that that greatness is you
This was inspired by Rudy Francisco. I heard about Rudy from a video posted by Button Poetry that had popped up on my Facebook one day. I loved the way he spoke and how deep his words hit me. Ever since the day I watched him I had been a fan. He has a poem that’s on YouTube title “A lot Like You”, it’s one of my favorites that he has performed. In this poem he is discussing how women know what they want their weddings to look like, what they want their dress to look like, small details of how they want the bi event to go. He follows it up with explaining that he doesn’t know what he’ll wear or what the colors will be but he does know what his perfect woman will be like. At the end the audience finds out that the woman he has been describing for the last 2 minutes is the woman that’s already in his life. She is who he wants to be with and who he plans the perfect wedding with. “When people ask me about my future wife I always tell them that her eyes are the only Christmas lights that deserve to be seen all year” was the line one that got me, the other line was “I would read her cover to cover, hoping to find typos just so we both could have something to work because aren’t we all unfinished”. Those two lines painted pictures in my head. See to be art you don’t have to be finished, in fact some art can be sold even when it’s unfinished because beauty is in the eye of the beholder. We get to decide what equates to art, and what equates to perfection. Ya know that cliche moment in movies where the light shines on the person walking down the stairs or the sun just so happens to come from behind the clouds at the right time and the Hallelujah chorus starts to sing? That’s the moment that I wanted to recreate with this poem. I wanted the light to shine down and I wanted the character to take a sharp inhale and just see how mesmerizing their significant other is. It’s like the first time they’re seeing each other all over again. It’s such a pivotal moment not only in movies but in our lives too. When we realize that this person we are attracted to passes all lines of beauty we get sucked into a trance that we don’t mind being in because we are lucky enough to see this work in real life.
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