Finger painting on a canvas

Yellows and reds

Joy and blood

Bile and laughter

.

I’m mine before I’m yours

I’m life and I’m joy

I’m beautiful and I’m strong

.

You fear me

The colour in my eyes

The emptiness in yours

.

You burn my portrait

My flesh and my bones

My tongue and my cries

.

But I’ll drag from the ashes

Tear through death and darkness

Hold your hate

like rain through my fingers

.

I’ll dine on ignorance

Feast on spite,

lunacy sweet on my tongue

.

Hold me down, darling.

I'll burn through you

and I'll keep rising

.

My nails full of blood

Yet once more at the easel

Finger painting on a canvas.