Written for:  Poetic Bloomings2 – For Your Consideration – The Walls Have Eyes
“Write from the point of view of a portrait on the wall.”

Vincent Van Gogh – Self-Portrait

Some of you stare
intently at my image
while others gently
tip-toe by. It’s that
bandage, isn’t it?
If you are waiting
for blood to seep
from the bandage,
remember, I have the
advantage of knowing
it will not, and do not
believe in miracles. Those
who pass quickly
with prickly feeling
just looking at
my face, perhaps
you fear contagion
of madness. There is
a state of sensitivity
nearly impossible 
to live with.

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