July 2020 – Alexis Veenendaal

Because I Said So

Because I said so,
Just do what you’re told,
Ask too many questions
And you’re out of the fold.

Believe what you should,
It’s a matter of l

We are made of lines and shapes,
so easily connected.
And with a pencil we can make
our art form, undirected.

Shading lines and smudges,
is

I look at you, if you were floor,
then down on ground
would be my sky, and grounded
I would be no more.

Hope is a draught
that all of us drink
without reading labels,
so we actually think
“it must be possible
since I think it so”
but brains hav