What's Art

What's art? It's Plato's shadows on the wall.
Go, touch it - It's a snake in Eden's garden.
Or maybe it's a leaf before the fall.
An executed man receives a pardon.

What's art? It isn't suffering or pain.
It's rather a disease, a kind of vector
that's able, through its subterfuge, to gain,
bypassing any shielding or deflector,

a channel to your very inner self
and transfer its concealed, mimetic cargo
from where it sits. A wall, a frame, a shelf.
No matter any sanction or embargo
that you may put on empathy and care.

That's art. And you will see it. If you dare.

Author notes: image generated by author prompt to Gemini