A Cockroach Sneaks Into An Art Museum By Judas H. ( @judas-redeemed )

A COCKROACH SNEAKS INTO AN ART MUSEUM
and crawls across the marble
floor into its first exhibit.
it has seen the birds of the air
soar across the infinite sky,
and the soft green cushion of
the tree leaves they call home;
it has seen the wonders of nature,
and all the beauty it has to offer──
but it wants to find the quiet grace
of humanity. and so it watches the
crowds of people stare in wonder
at the exhibits hanging on the walls,
watches the children laugh at abstract
faces, watches the college students
study each work for their next paper,
watches the comings and goings of it all.
but it finds an old woman with tears
in her big, brown eyes, as she gazes into
a painting with the kind of love that
can only be requited.

and though it's
curious about the kind of painting
that would garner such a reaction──
it finds it cannot tear its eyes away
from the woman who is her own
kind of masterpiece
and it watches her, finally understanding
that humans, too, are as awe-inspiring
as the flowers that dot the
landscapes it knows so well.
but the woman sees it.
and the moment is ripped away.
she shrieks and tries to stomp it to death,
so it scuttles off back into the darkness,
its tiny heart torn in two.
and dreaming it could someday be seen
as beautiful as the people who want it dead,
the cockroach becomes the most human
thing in the whole building:
small and rejected and more than anything,
just wanting to be known

a cockroach sneaks into an art museum by judas h. ( @judas-redeemed )

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