Lyccs Reflection.
Reels Vessel.


Painters
by Niken Afifah

We are painters without paint
Mixing the colours in our mind
Glance upon our palettes
And black ink is all you will find
But from its depths we pull
A written sky of brightest blue
Swirling drops of dreams
Into the things we know as true
With just the flicker of our wrist
We can make the moonbeams sing
Spill golden rays of sunrise
Over all of everything
We can conjure calm or chaos
By just willing it be so
Pave roads to where your thoughts
Have never realised they could go
Our pens can pull you on a journey
On a pilgrimage, a quest
Drag you through your darkest hours
And then blend them with your best
So when it ends you stumble backwards
In shock to find it’s black and white
We are painters without paint
And that’s the reason why we write