Leaving a Kiss by Christopher Woods

Cy Twombly's Phaedrus painting (right side) was sealed with a kiss.

Leaving a Kiss

A woman who says she was so overcome with passion for a valuable painting on display in France has been charged with criminal damage after kissing it.
BBC NEWS
 
what will become you, of me?
something so brief as a kiss
has united us. Conspirators.
there are rules about me -
lines and brushstrokes
color, canvas, vision.
but the only lines I think
about are the canvas edges,
the space between me and
those who come to see,
worship or dismiss, world of voyeurs.
you brought me passion,
something I have never known.
out of all those in the museum,
you alone stepped forward.
 
you will suffer consequences
for crossing another line,
for making me almost human.

Christopher Woods