Time For a Different Life
Another 4 in the morning. It is a harder night for me and I have already woken up many times. I just feel like doing a drawing. This time I use the watercolors. It goes pretty fast till I get the feeling that I have to stop.
I collect some words and go back to bed. In the morning, before everything else the poem is made, and later a few touch ups are added:
The group
Of sharp, short and spiky actors
Is growing small.
They have no more
Long term power.
This happened once and now it’s gone
Disappearing at the horizon
Like an ancient script
That tells of killings
And of horrors.
They were beautiful to tell
With heroes and villains
But we have to live
A different life
Now.
I used to be a graphic designer and an illustrator. I became involved with the Chan Meditation Center and studied meditation and Buddhist knowledge with the late Master Sheng-yen from Taiwan. For twelve years I was in a process of deepening my meditation. I had many more experiences and insights and my life changed. After having illustrated more than 40 children’s books and writing two of them, I left this career too and went to New York University to study art therapy.
You can see more about Giora’s work on his blog and website
