If Only You Believe

Our reality is what we choose to

believe, even at times the unheard

and unseen. We take it on the word

of zoologists that the dodo existed,

but for some time now has been

proclaimed extinct. Oh yes, there

are renderings, yet no photographic

proof to be found. I paint the old

man’s portrait, or a likeness of a

young woman in her prime, both

gone now, voiceless with no words

of their own left to carry on. I admit

that I have told stories before which

stretch the bounds of reality. Believe

you me! I implore you! And, even I

name the nameless as I paint my

mind’s imagery into existence. You

say that I am an artist. Yet history may

never validate that which you believe

even should you swear it is true. Had

you not been here as witness, no one

else should know, but you. Yet, there

are still those who disbelieve...Look Up!

I swear it’s true! See, there really is a

man on the moon! And, exclamation

points positioned here and there stra-

tegically do help to support the validity.

Chris Hanch 4-23-19