Poetry: Inspired by Vincent Van Gogh

The quest that you embarked on

oh so many years ago

To try and find a place

for one named Mr. Vincent Van Gogh.

The colors on your palette

swirled around inside your head

From yellow gold elation

to angry firey reds.

In bouts of isolation

you would turn to brush and pen

Trying to purge the feelings

that would plague you to the end.

Emotional and passionate

no one understood your kind

Making you sink deeper

into the madness of your mind.

The love that you had searched for

from the moment of your birth

Would never come to find you

and would undermine your worth.

A night so dark and dreary

filled your room with untold black

You chose to leave this world

without ever looking back.

And since you’ve gone away

it’s no longer “Vincent who?”

For your paintings tell the story

of the very special you.

The sensitive, the beautiful,

the complex, Vince Van Gogh,

The likes of one I’m certain

the world again will never know.