Artist

By Robster80



I want to be an artist

To take my pen or pencil

In my hand

And make pictures of things

That reflect my feelings

Or personal likes

I want to be an artist

To draw people with real faces

To draw robots and machines in perfect detail

To draw animals and creatures past, present, and future

As I see them before me

Or in my mind’s eye

I want to be an artist

But my drawings

Don’t seem quite right

They seem less like pictures

And more like words

The more I move the pencil

The more the pictures become words

I want to be an artist

But I’ve put down my pencil

The keyboard is now my tool

As I now make lines of words

Instead of lines of pictures

I want to be an artist

But an artist of writing



My first poem out of high school. Please let me know what you think. â€"R80