Melancholy

Quế Anh oil pastel on paper 2011

Melancholy

I met him, the old painter

went to his dark atelier

with no painting hanging on the walls

He told me that for longtime

He has ceased to spread

world of colors on canvas

Hearing him I felt a pang in my heart

of emptiness with fading melody

I realized that in his atelier

we two were standing as in the last station

waiting for the departing train

but in the serene sunset melancholy

2011