Friday, November 16, 2018

Cold Turkey



Cold Turkey

The call to suicide’s the artist’s brief
The punishing silence in life’s the grief
There are those, few, who feel the universe’s resonance
There’s one payment derived and that’s fate’s penance

To experience the extreme is to know all
Anger it raises is derided by life’s call
No mercy but only justice makes it moral
That self-pity weakness becomes hated and I stand tall

But nothing’s resolved, so what’s the point?
Expression, so that it heals emotional dislocation and fracture
The artist is the sacrificial lamb, upon the altar of aesthetics
In word, picture, dance or song, a message is carried

This fight for humanity’s fate determined by mind
It’s lost by sloth and ease, won by objective determination with effort
The curse of intellectual that views the incurious
Disgust of the intellectual that witnesses the epicureans

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