I visited the ocean in paint

At 930 in the morning on my day off I walked to the Goodwill,

To look at paintings for our new apartment.

A painting of the ocean caught my eye,

it captured the ocean

exactly

and I felt like I was there.

I stood staring

fixated on the painting

till everything around me faded away.

I stood time traveling,

Moving without knowledge past passers-by

In the store

To the exact moment captured

Like a caught fish

By this artist, whose art was being sold in a second hand store.

At first,

The water felt thick

Paint blue colored

Hit my legs and covered me in the color that must have seemed the most ocean-like.

Then,

Something happened.

I began to smell the salty-air,

Cutting through the thick, chemically acrylic, and filling the new ocean world

With sparkling realness.

It was so real,

I decided to stay.

So now when anyone goes and looks at Samantha Armani's painting of the ocean,

I am painted in there too,

walking through her perfect ocean waves, in all my imperfection.

Painting from:

https://www.pinterest.com/TheAristicGurl/