Original "Return to Innocence" Painting

Original Oil Painting 12" x 16

"Return to Innocence" was inspired along side this original poem by Grace Bjork

Soft and gentle, light and free,

This is how I used to be.

Once a tender little child,

Open heart, free, and wild.

Too many days, way down by burden,

I shift, I bend, and somehow worsen.

Silently, slowly,

I close my heart wholly.

It's quiet now,

I can't remember how.

How to return to those lighter days,

When everything wasn't a blurry craze.

But then it happens

The room, fully blackens.

There's a light that approaches, soft and gentle,

It's showing me something important, but feels accidental.

I open my eyes and remember,

I stopped holding on and just surrender.

Soft and gentle, light and free

I'm starting to remember how to be me.

Now I see doesn't have to be intense,

I just need to return to innocence.