• they took my pencil
    my pads
    my paper
    I'm an artist without a canvas
    an expression without a mouth to set it free
    lost in an addiction
    to the simplest self expression
    why take art from an artist
    especially when such attempts are so very doomed to fail
    lost
    lost in a world of malcontent
    pictures better
    and yet the same to pain
    what makes me so happy
    so angry
    so scared
    what's so addictive
    about the scratch of pencil to paper
    and what would make a family so misunderstanding
    that they would do this to me