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They paint in silence

Inside white sheets a woman sleeps.

Outside the sound of a passing train rattles a dirty window.

Next door a man rises from an aged rusty bed and  dresses in worn out clothes.

The wooden floor is silent in fear.

His wife emerges and blames him for her ageing.

He sighs into his lonely thoughts.

She falls and cry’s into a fading dream.

His work is endless stillness while her work is to forget.

The painting in which they both appear is seen by passing artists.

In their minds they steal that image which  duplicates the silence of space.

On canvases they paint and draw moulding loneliness into form and shape.

Viewers see themselves in the pain that’s painted. 

They see a frame of many lives.