Reverberations

Reverberations

Memory reverberates best in empty spaces

Spaces made empty by the simplest act

Whitewashing balanced colors of emotion

Paintbrushes of pain, caked and fresh

Streak the white with jagged strokes

Blend into indecipherable colors 

Reverberations travel through mind, body & soul

Hand to paintbrush, paintbrush to canvas

Fast and furious fades out

Painful pauses fill in 

Paintbrush to hand

Hand to mind

Reverberations of pain

Travel back and forth

Space begins to fill

Reverberations pack themselves

Into soundproof boxes

Till the next unlocking

Of everlasting reverberations