This was originally planned to enter the Poetic Imagery contest until I found out I didn't read the rules rite and wasn't supposed to use a photo.
I was captured by the poem and the face impression in a photo of a friend seamed so perfect to interpret the poem. For that I closed the title.
The picture is the merge of two photos. The background is a photo what was shut blurry and unfocused in purpose for background use and then traded with different filters. On this background were placed the face of my friend treaded with filters. The green 'hear' is partly painted in with different paintbrush, partly background. Then the entire picture was treated with a glass pattern filter.
I used Digital Imagine suite 2006 and Paint Shop pro X2