Change

"Change" 24x36 mixed media on canvas. c. 2010 Lisa Marten

This is a new painting I just created mixing my impressionistic oil landscape style with my mixed media expressionist abstract style. This painting is inspired by a poem I wrote years ago.

Change
c. 1993 Lisa Marten

Change is immanent
No matter how much we try and fight it
No matter how much we try and reroute it
Change is inevitable
We can’t stop it, we can’t delay it
It will always take place
Time keeps ticking away
And there’s no way to turn back the hands
Like some futile plot in a paperback novel
The story never really ends
So how do we move with change and not become
Sucked up in its vacuum of mediocrity?
How do we deal with its’ ever pounding surf
upon our frail and fragile existence?
Change can be riveting and cruel one moment
And stabling and benevolent the next
So how do we sail the seas of change
To dock in the port of salvation
with out dashing upon the rocks of destruction?
The answer is best found in a question:
As change continues to occur…will we?