Monotonous Solitude

 This is a photograph of the pathway on the clinic site.
After the rain, a lot of leaves fell to the ground.

 I borrowed my husband's phone to take this photograph.

 

Monotonous Solitude

Standing on the road alone

Shadow is fading into the atmosphere

And disappearing into the universe

Puddles are reflecting the sky

I found myself standing there

I didn’t realize that I was alone

The wind agitated the sky in the puddles

I disappeared into the universe

I forgot how many years passed

After I found myself in a puddle

Forgetting and being forgotten

I lost my shadow from my memory

The shadow was a shadow, not reality

Stepping into the sky in a puddle

I am trying to connect to myself 

Photograph and poem by Felicia Jarvis
 © 2018 Felicia Jarvis All Rights Reserved

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

 © 2018 Felicia Jarvis All Rights Reserved