When heaven meets the edge of the dark deep sea - Art and Poetry
When heaven meets the edge
of the dark deep sea
When the waters reach up
to light bright as can be
I sit beside the shore and dream
Watching the stars above as they gleam
What's beyond this world? I ponder
What magic can be found over yonder?
I'll never know the secrets
of the dark deep sea
Nor will I reach the light
that shines above me
I may be small, but I can dream,
so I'm not as insignificant as I seem.
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For the past couple weeks, my family has been fostering four kittens we found in our backyard. I got super attached to them, because of course I did, they're kittens!
But today I learned that some of the people who were going to adopt the kittens backed out, and now it's very likely that the kittens are going to be adopted by total strangers met over the internet. So I'll never get to see them again, and I won't know if they're okay. They could die and I wouldn't know. It does occur to me that even if the people who were going to adopt them didn't back out, this might still be the case, since they're friends of friends, but still... today it really just dawned on me that I had limited time with the kittens who I kinda grew to see as my children.
Being legitimately sad, not depressed - different things, sadness is an emotion, and depression is a mental illness (one that I've had my fair share of) - kind of made me feel inspired for some reason. This poem is actually inspired by the Animal Crossing: New Horizons island I share with my brother, which has a theme of the sky, the land, and the sea, each having a different section of the island (his is the sea, mine is the sky, and the shared area for the plaza and shops and stuff is the land). The kittens have nothing to do with it, but I doubt I'd have written this if I wasn't searching for a creative outlet to deal with being sad.
This description could easily be WAY shorter, but I just felt the need to write that out. I'm not sure why. Anyway... I hope you enjoy this poem, and the drawing I made to go with it. ♥
#speedpaint
