New Year Resolution

The painter put down his brushes.
That's it, he said. That's me done
for another year

I have painted everything that
happened in 2014. I didn't mean to
but it just happened anyway;

Now, can you show me something
good? Like we were led to believe
the garden of Eden was like?

I will pray to someone to release
me from this earthly torment
where the only release is in
art, the only therapy in the sound
waves which cunningly connect
us far far to every part of the universe.

The resolution of my image will sharpen
with the pencil point of my mind, taking
leads from everything, all our new discoveries
and beliefs all the time
until it is pure and clear,
focused and unpixellated
and that picture of everything,
all my half-known truths, resolves.