“Everything you do is a balloon”

Acrylic painting on canvas

24x30 inches

August 2021

The poem shown in the pool:

“Everything you do is a balloon” 

(Inspired by Boards of Canada song of the same name)

Everything you do is a balloon.

The way you drifted around without a care.

Your soul floated through the cloudy filled skies.

Unfettered by your surroundings.

Your calm and light disposition never failed to surprise me.

I loved the way your bright red smile filled the room with glee.

Yet I always felt like I tied you down,

keeping your potential stuck to the ground.

I always saw you looking up at the sky

as if you were waiting to make your grand pilgrimage through the clouds.

I knew that one day I would have to let go.

Some of us are meant to drift through the skies, never once looking back down at the ground.

It seems that these people are weightless. Never bound down by their surroundings.

I suppose you were one of those people. I don’t regret cutting the strings attached to you and letting you make your departure.

I always knew deep down that was your destiny.

And after you left I couldn’t help but watch,

you float up, beyond the heavens.