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Unescape Artist

When you are an artist, you can't escape from it. No matter how much you tell yourself that you will starve, that your'e stupid for wanting a useless degree, that you should become an accountant; you can't fight it. Maybe because when it comes down to it, you simply don't want to, or maybe its because to fight against it is like warring against yourself instead of all the evil around you. And that is exactly why you can't. Because in some inspiring, self possessing way, it helps you fight all the evil around you. It becomes your sword, a way to cut through the frivoluous, to see the beauty that sustains us all. And you want to know the most beautiful thing? When your tool to beauty becomes the tool to help cut someone else's dark. So that is why I am artist. Not simply for choosing or for sanity, but because it's in my heart, it pumps through my veins, it is my blood, it is me. I am artist. And to detach this from me is make someone new. So it is not my choice really. You asked why I choose this. But in fact, this is why I can't not choose it.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2010




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Date: 1/5/2010 11:01:00 AM
Thank you for sharing your wonderful poetry with us today Faith. May your writing take you to new heights each and every day. Love, Carol
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Date: 1/4/2010 5:56:00 PM
you are right, it is there no matter what you do.
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