To Be

June 21, 2016

To be an artist is to be immortal

Inconsequential

Inspirational

To be a painter

A musician

A poet

To bear your soul for all to see

And be shot down by society

And say fuck them because you

Don't care

Is to be feared

And fearless

And fearful

To be a romantic is to be childish but

To be childish is to know nothing of love

To be anything in this world

Is to be alive

And breathing

And connected

To be

To simply exist

What a strange

Beautiful

Terrifying concept

To be

To be what

But a jumbled mass of nerves

Consciousness made of flesh

The universe personified

To be anything

Anything at all

It's enough to make anyone insane

At least those of us who actually think

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