Paper

About the beauty of a blank piece of paper.

one of the most beautiful sights on earth,

not made by earth, but by man.

to have such sinful hands create

a perfect white

makes me wonder.

smooth and unmarred,

innocent and naive,

until our hands destroy

what we've created

and install our thoughts,

our beliefs,

onto their unknowing surface.

we sit and contemplate their glory:

the glory we have made.

but our hands twitch and betray

our basic urge

to destroy beauty,

the beauty we made,

in our desperate attempt to love it.

to fall into our possessive natures

and leave our marks.

to be known.

to let others know

this is ours-

our snow white child.

Author's Note

I always loved the way a blank piece of paper looked. I must admit, every time I see a blank page, I stop and admire it for a bit before I write on it. I suppose this is what the poem is about.

Reviews

[shutbudholdsabee]

I love the infinite number of ways one can look at a piece of paper. I've thought this myself before, that with each word we write, we only blacken the page in front of us. Original thoughts, you said it well. Especially like the last line. Great job.

[N.Sevilla]

Thank you for the review! Glad you liked it.

[Benita-Staebell M - Kin..]

Never saw it this way Interesting.


My writing and creativity comes from
God I couldn't be inspired by everything
if it wasn't for him and the people that
are put in my life and good and bad experience's
Inspire me but I would be nothing without God
he call's the shots.


so God is my Muse my Pen
So I just put down what ever God
Inspires me with.


Paper is pretty Awesome to
have come's from something
I am happy we have Trees.

A writer Poet always can use
extra paper and things to write
with they always make good
use of them and They
never let them go to waste.


I like how you brought this to life
this is very different view point on
how another see it.

Keep up the good work. Blessings. Kindred poet