• Thought of erasing

     

    Construction – the very word itself

    is longer than image, toil and sweat

    going into the mindset of those involved

     be it artisan, mason, poet or architect;

     

    how much of planning and project

    into the outline, inviting word and images

    fix and decorate into the auditorium

     draw and paint dipping into acrylic

     

    with brushes of deft strokes every where

    selected, touch and smell the paint;

    ready for scaffolding, write and draft;

    all for records, posterity and content;

     

    but a sudden   hand of blunt and mad

    rush  embarks  upon erasing, rubbing,

     not for progress, but for erasure

     to destroy from page, image, history;

     

    woe to the  hand plunges upon erasure

    woe to the mind plotting to blot and remove

     those that require  consolidation and construction.

     woe to the very concept of erasure.