Emerging From The Darkness

Reaching For The Moon Retablo available in my Etsy Store

The line art above is reminiscent of my childhood... the darkness and nightmares forever closing in... love seemingly out of reach... yet, I continued to yearn, continued to dream that someday I would hold it in my hands... that I could indeed reach even the moon if I tried hard enough...

This retablo is the hope that everyone will reach the moon, that no one should be haunted like the verses below -

In the hollow of my soul
lies a child forever haunted

Just beyond her reach,
the peace she always wanted

The glimmer of its hope
fading like the moon

The sweetness of its harmony
a mere echo of a tune

That swelled when angels left her
to harden into clay

Then faded into nothing
to let the Devil have his way

Will that song resume once more
now that youth has gone astray?

Her eyes forever waiting
for the night to end the day...

-me