Art

To be an Artist is to give up everything you love for your work, to be unable to give up anything your work.

It's a disease,

no, it's worse,

it's the worse type of drug, more terrible than alcohol

There is no stopping it, no cure

It spreads around your soul, at first a shield, then it clings and sticks to you.

It's still a shield, yes, but now there's no getting rid of it

Even if you wanted to

And you don't

You never will

It's a punchbag, a place for you to channel your anger.

It's a lesson, a way for you to teach the world in the most complicated way

It's a discovery, of yourself that you never knew

It's terrible, it's frightening, it's terrifyingly horrid.

It's a whole nother world

Neither on Earth

Nor in Heaven

but somewhere in between

somewhere much more frightening

I think it's close to hell

I cannot be sure

But I think the path

must have gone right past the door

But it must have gone by Heaven too

For the angel's have taken it up

The innocent creatures

Have taken up a task so horrid

A task better left for us

And I know if you asked me to stop it,

If you put me through hell,

begged,

yelled,

threatened,

starved,

tortured,

I would never give it up

I wouldn't be able

Because I love it

Love it more than I'll ever love any boy

any friend

any family member

It's something, no one who hasn't felt would ever understand

We love our work more than anything we've ever done

We love it

I love it

It's more than fun

It's more than a feeling

It's more than a hobby

It's more than me

It's art

Author's Note

This will have to go through some extreme editing...

Song this was partly inspired by:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLbuUQ-RNGg

Reviews

[Shimmerbliss/CAF]

Bravo! Bravo! and wow.

[Neva Flores Smith - Cha..]

such a wondrous work of art this is...........:)