Susan M. Olmetti

Self-Portrait

I am the beggar of life's feast
I am a ghost without my door
A looker upon the reveller
Whose secrets I emplore
I have been forbidden to enter the gate
I plunged into the stream
It's been a life of yearning loneliness
One morning I awoke and painted him in a dream

Painted by Susan M. Olmetti
Photos by Tom Zamiar
© 2006 All Rights Reserved • Used with permission