A Poem for Wednesday

Trial

20 " x 24"

Oil and Mixed Media inCanvas

Fine Art Prints of this original painting are available on my Etsy site.

How Is Your Heart? 

by Charles Bukowski

during my worst times

on the park benches

in the jails

I always had this certain

contentment-

I wouldn't call it

happiness-

it was more of an inner

balance 

that settled for

whatever was occuring

and it helped in the

factories

and when relationships 

went wrong

with the 

girls. 

it helped 

through the

wars and the

hangovers

the backalley fights

the 

hospitals. 

to awaken in a cheap room

in a strange city and

pull up the shade-

this was the craziest kind of

contentment

and to walk across the floor

to an old dresser with a 

cracked mirror- 

see myself, ugly,

grinning at it all. 

what matters most is

how well you 

walk through the

fire.