The Art of Children
The Art of Children
by Halifax
Prince Rupert drops
It was a perfect shame
the heat of it
how well reality resisted intrusion
with an inordinate pressure
hardening into existence
a mark more persistent
than not
The force which pushes back
bears down on all creations
so much gravity
the only remnants surviving
are intangible connections
to other past triumphs
over universal indifference
these fragile reminders
get shuffled away
buried in piles under
examples of their kind
dig them up like treasure
while it is possible
they serve as crucial evidence
a once when the threat we possess
won out
an again when we claimed a space on our own
to stifle the heart in all else less
and upset the scales
weighing worth against value
save these efforts
as something remarkable
since each these victories
are lost
if the fight goes out of you
An extraordinarily abstract, distant, and perceptive commentary on an elementary subject, children’s art: the importance of rescuing and preserving these “fragile…past triumphs over (the) universal indifference” that comes later from a grown-up world. We all should take this one to heart.
Prince Rupert drops:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zxZkK2aJig