Gradual

Beautiful, pristine, white sheet canvas in front of me

Washed down with blue and gray

Dotted and scribbled

With abstract imagination

Gradient with somber emotion

Dripping down to stain the plastic

Still, so carefully,

Set aside to set and dry

Beautiful, pristine, white sheet canvas

Becoming, gradually, a gorgeous mess

Placed upon a pedestal

To slit the colored threads

With a knife

To sit in the dusty closet

With the other series of 'scarred' beauties