Art

Art 

is a mirror reflecting

our possibilities and realities,

our hopes and dreams,

our hatreds and nightmares.

Art

calls us

to remember,

to desire,

to forget,

to reconsider.

Art

is decried, maligned,

hated, misappropriated,

desecrated, misrepresented.

Art

cannot be

bought or sold,

censored or controlled.

And, for those

with eyes to see

and ears to hear,

art slowly transforms us

from the outside in,

from the inside out.

-bshivers