Life Art

Be water, my friend… Be water!
/Bruce Lee/

If they should say:
Close the lids of your paints,
If they even lay
Your bright paintbox away —
Leave colours open
And let them be spread…
Be colourful water…
Be water, my friend!

If they should tell you —
Your art has no sense!
Don’t be misled
By their hearts’ absence!
Help paints to spread,
Mix in a courage splash! —
Be water, my friend —
Be water and a brush!

If they should try
To make you believe:
There’s no paint in life
And art’s apart from belief —
Just stay always clean
For your life-painting voyage!
Be paper, my friend —
The paper, water and the brush!

If they should ask you:
Where are colours in your life?
What is your task?
What helps you to survive?
And smiling back,
You will happily say:
As you’re a colour yourself
In your life and in theirs!

If they should force you:
“No way to explain
What’s the sense of life!? —
The world is full of pain!”
Bring colours to their hearts,
Collect them from parts —
We are Arts of the Great Artist
And the tools for Next Art!

Life is a beautiful thing — feel it!
Life is a colourful thing — see it!
Colour your life,
Making you thrive!
Life is your masterpiece — Love it!

Colour your life,
In Christ you will thrive!
Life is your masterpiece — Live it!
You are God’s masterpiece — believe in it!

2023(c) Anastasia Konovalchuk

1) Russian version of this poem
http://stihi.ru/2023/07/17/6005