Death of an Artist

Ankit Mishra
1 min readJan 30, 2019

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Ana Mendieta’s film ‘Butterfly,’ 1975.

Break

the brush

and hang the nib down

until it cuts

the wrist through its rough edges

Mixed

with blood clots

Color weaves

Small beads of prayers

With shades of red

Spurting over canvas

Setting the art and heart apart

Beating

the rush

To come out

As the heart tries to pump

Veins popping in and out

And the Mind reaches a full stop

End

Of Breath, Blood or Ego

A stroke of genius

Killing it all

Edges of nib slowly pinching the veins

Eroding the Vision

It’s a sky fall

From a universe

into the oceans of universe

Spread across

In proxy wars between false shaman and prophets

Our He(art) has betrayed us

Paving the way for another dark night

As rain betrays the clouds

Patches of dry circles filled with Praying Mantis

Neither venomous nor Strong

Just a tiny bit of humans circling the sun around

Death

An artist’s impression to feel alive

Until his wrists twitches in hopes of new stories untold

My demise was never proclaimed

To gulch on this tormented mind till I am naught but hollowed eyes!!

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Ankit Mishra
Ankit Mishra

Written by Ankit Mishra

Author 2X — New Poetry Book “Threads of Trust” Available on Amazon

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