If Art Could Talk

Here's an awesome writing prompt I found at http://www.writersdigest.com/prompts

        
 Think of a painting.  Any painting.  If the painting could come right out and speak to you, what would it say?  Write an entire dialogue between you and the painting.  

I chose to write a conversation between myself and this painting

I saw a painting in a museum once

Picasso’s “Old Guitarist.”

Inside was a man  in blue

Head bowed,

Clothes torn,

And bony fingers poised

On silent guitar strings.

“What’s wrong?” I asked.

He didn’t move.

“What’s the matter with you?”

He blinked.

“Are you sad?” 

Slowly, very slowly

He raised his sunken, lifeless eyes.

His skeleton hand fell limply across guitar strings,

VWONGGGG!

The eerie chord penetrated the painted canvas.

I covered my ears.

His thin lips twisted in a sickly grin.

“What do you want?”  I asked.

“To die.”  He said

I could tell he had once been a handsome man

Proud and tall,

With high cheek bones

and a thick head of hair

Now he was bent.

Now he old.

Now he was

Balding,

And broken,

And sad.

“Is there anything I can do?”  I asked.

Avoiding my eyes

He plucked the guitar strings

One by one.

“Nothing”  He said.

And cradling his guitar,

turned to face the wall.

I reached to put my hand on his shoulder,

But found only smooth paint

On rough canvas.

Powerless,

I turned away

From the sad, broken man

And moved to the next painting.

I'm dying to hear what other paintings inspire people to write.  If you like this prompt and decide to write on it, please share! I'd love to see what other people come up with! 

Also I could really use some title ideas for this poem.  I can't seem to find one that fits.