Written piece
A Drop of Paint...
Kavya Gamage
Sri Lanka
About this piece
This poem shows that we have to put the effort to something, based on the effort it deserves. Simply, pressurising to peel the paint with too much effort worsened it where the smooth edgy nail tip which is the suitable effort removed the stain effortlessly. This is life itself.
A Drop of Paint...
Once,
she spilt red paint on her tile.
She sighed !
yet,
took a piece of cloth,
rinsed, making it worse.
She sighed again !
Then took cotton with thinner.
Rubbed with force,
removing the smeared paint
but,
the initial stain still survives with blurry lines.
Then she took the edge of her nail,
Her long thin index nail,
to scratch the paint stain,
where it effortlessly vanished,
replacing her sigh with a smile!
- Kavya Gamage