I need to create to breathe.
To make with these hands something worthwhile, lasting.
To combat the thought that I am irrelevant, nothing to give, nothing to prove.
It's an idea easy to convince when not a thing is expected.
Walking, talking, bleeding cliche.
You believe in me like you believe in God, in tiny time increments when anger ebbs and chest softens.
Love me to fill spaces left by those who could not and would not stay.
There isn't much left here to prosper.
Only the disease that is mediocrity, fed in spoonfuls to my gaping hole of a mouth.
I choke it down like honey, take it in with fever.
It tastes of comfort, oh dearest apathy ( you were once a beloved friend to me).
But there is this frantic frenzy that makes my bones shake and causes fingers to quicken.
A desperate desire to shape beauty with these hands, to form syllables with this tongue.
To let the words flow from my guts and spill out onto pages, give me a line to sing.
I want to live life in lenses, give me a moment to bring,
to the surface in photos that bare all my soul, and capture real light in eyes and minds and smiles.
This a longing that makes me more than a body and a brain,
my joy ( present, past, future, love).
NO room is there here in my existing for wasted minutes and taken for granted days,
I will not be grey.
This is why I create.
Because I know that when I am but ashes on blades of grass pastures,
when the masses have broken down every good moral and big city,
all that will remain will be the expressions left by those who saw the depths of real and gave it new promise.
Art.
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