Van Gogh’s ear sings tales all night

Soulful moaning over mind’s eye sight

 

Antagonize the heart and turn the eye

A visitor to the heart or passing by

 

From this spring that we all drink

What whispers all the thoughts we think

 

Lunatic genius with eyes turned in

Tell me where my mind has been

 

A freighting tether is shelter and cage

Where the writer’s pen touches page

 

Ink’s fossil trail bleeding from my pen

A history of where my heart has been

 

To go and not say in doing so

Beyond this point no words can go

 

With feet of clay and hand to chalk

I’ve come to hear Van Gogh’s ear talk