My Longest Dream of The Shortest Sleep

My dear cat, Jemima. She is about two years old. 
I painted this in February 2018. Oil

My Longest Dream of the Shortest Sleep

I wondered if my emptiness was my fault
I wished that my life would immediately halt
My swollen heart was filled with pain

Once realities made me a dreamer
Emptiness would kill me quicker
Than my purse filled with nothing

My longest dream of the shortest sleep
Like admiring shallow waters “so deep!”
Like calling uncertainties the divine truth

To distinguish confusion from depth
Requires courage to stand beneath
People who ranked themselves superior

Oh God, hide me from their poisons
Its sweet odor of everlasting haughtiness
Desperately longed for by ambitious men

Painting and poem by Felicia Jarvis

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