The canvas is complete, but I want to keep painting. There are more canvases to the side, but I don't want to scar them with silly little lines, not like I did with this one.

If all my canvases were painted with lines, people would eventually see them. They'd question and stare. "Why?" they'd ask. "Why lines? Why everywhere?"

Those canvases I started to paint, why not complete and cover? The paint can stack, but it will all crack; those past old scars will still show. People would still know. They make me feel attacked.

The canvas can't wash clean, and neither can the scars on me. Paint, I did in the past. I must learn to love my art, myself, at last.