Your Face

Written by Janette Marie
© 2010 Janette Marie

With pencil I have learned

to adore the lines of your face
I've touched your smile
to shadow your lips

Create the face I see in dreams
love and care
hand to paper
can't erase a single curve

Soft and Shiny the pencil creates
strands that fingers long to entwine
with gentle strokes of fingertips
the shape around your face is formed

Patience to shadow the sides of your nose
that lies beside your cheeks with grace
to shadow your cheeks with just my thumb
wonder if that's how the original was done