To Vincent

To Vincent … who will never know
The love I feel and cannot show
Of kaleidoscopes on linen snow

To Vincent … shaded as a fool
Whose isolation fractured rules
With genius crowned delusional

To Vincent … socially denied
Whose brilliance is immortalized
By majesty viewed through his eyes

To Vincent… dubbed an albatross
Who dwelled in dreams of splendor lost
Whose vision held a fatal cost

To Vincent … bathed in spectral light
Whose palette moved him to vast heights
Whose epic is A Starry Night


© 1986 JVD