Pearls Of Light

Credits: All Vinnie Pearce, Pixel Canvas. Background is just a solid color fill, distressed with Distress Brushes Set 01 and Old Text Brushes, along with a splat from Page Masks Set 01, and some Decorative Grunge Swirls (the "Joy" wordart was made with the same brushes, as well as with Brock Script Font). Font for poem: butterbrotpapier. Text reads:

"what is it
in my chest
that strings out
along pearls of light
into the thick of distance?

why do I feel the need
to be absolved
by dissolution
the desire to become
some mist of sentience
floating above lonely shores
or brushing the waves
where otters sleep?

I do not know. Perhaps
it is only the pain
of exquisite joy."