Starving Artist
I’ve traced the veins up your arms
The angles of your jaw
The slope of your cheekbones
The basin of your forehead
The curves of your sides
The length of your limbs
Over and over
Again and again
But I haven’t quite painted
The perfect picture of you yet
Because like any vast landscape
You are impossible capture
Within four corners
And straight edges
So I try to take in
As much as I can
When I’m with you
Because I know well
You can’t recreate
a picture so perfect