Billy painted this for a friend who wanted to commission a piece to give to the family of the woman (pictured) who died of leukemia. I found out she was recently married and when I looked at billy’s painting, I was really moved by the painting. I literally couldn’t take my eyes off it. Within moments I wrote a poem as part of the gift.
The friend loved the two pieces. Billy ending up painting the poem on to the back of the painting.
I can’t take my eyes off you
I have come to a world
where a setting sun drops
in the middle of an ocean
where stars fall like wind on sand
and like a silk dress
wrapped to my legs
I know
the outline my life will bare
I know
every cell has felt
your smile on me, I can only
show you what you already
have, my love
I can only leave
when the readiness of light
is the long sparkling night
and your shining eyes
I am made from the stars
I am a constellation you
know in the palm of your
hand, I am every heart beat in you
laugh for me (it tickles
my soul)
ah the joy is so quiet, I can rest
so still like no horizon every glimpsed
This is worth living for, Yes!
I can’t take my eyes off you
Tags: 2009, death, eternal, healing, loss, love, separation, spiritual
