Almost Human is a painting by RC DeWinter which was uploaded on August 11th, 2012.
Title
Almost Human
Artist
RC DeWinter
Medium
Painting - Digital Oils-paintography-photopainting
Description
Copyright 2012 RC deWinter ~ All Rights Reserved
Slipping the Collar
After the years of indifference and neglect
the partnership became a choke - chafing,
digging into the soft flesh of the neck,
cutting off the air if one attempted to stray
too far from the established boundary.
Freedom - liberation - to run free and be
the creature it was meant to be became
the single occupying thought.
There never is a right time to escape,
only the chance of opportunity.
It was taken -
freedom demanded and eventually obtained.
The partnership dissolved, the creature found only
another pattern,
another boundary,
another set of strictures just as difficult to parse and navigate.
Freedom - liberation - ha!
Clumsy, untutored, still seeking only to be itself
stumbling along, relying on instinct as its only guide
to the unfamiliar maze out there,
lacking the tools of guile, cunning and cruelty,
unschooled in the ways of the vulpine,
the creature faltered and found itself trapped in the
vicious leghold of societal expectations.
Raising its shaggy unkempt head, it sniffed the wind
and scented sweet fresh air, a dim remembrance from
some time long past, blowing in from the west.
Wearily, slowly, almost reluctantly, the beast began
to untangle itself from the Lilliputian threads
that bound it fast,
still uncomprehending of the how
but knowing now the where.
And when the last surcingle snapped, the creature rose,
looked to the setting sun, and began its westward hejira.
~ copyright 1998, renewed 2012 RC deWinter
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August 11th, 2012
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Comments (39)
Lyric Lucas
Congratulations your creative and unique art work is featured in the "Out Of The Ordinary" group! Very moving image and poem!
Byron Varvarigos
Lovely prose, Regina, I'm seeing it as a comment on human life in general, each of us on a never-ending quest for greater freedom--through the uniquely crafted mazes we each inherited. Lovely portrait, too! LF
RC DeWinter replied:
Most kind of you, thank you, glad you liked the poem as well as the painting, Byron.
Joyce Dickens
Gina I must tell you that I enjoy your writing as much as your incredible artwork......I am so blessed that our paths have crossed ! jd
RC DeWinter replied:
I so appreciate your kind words and encouragement, Joyce, bright blessings to you.
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