This piece wanted me to paint it because I so often hear people casually and deliberately quoting William Shakespeare's infamous words “All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players…”

She is both the giver and receiver. She and I shared laughs, tears, rest, pain, joy, and many other feelings as she came to her self and me too.

She has allowed me to release all other versions of myself within her, as I emerge from myself into this "life"!