بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

YOU HAVE TO FEED IT

OR IT WILL EAT YOU FROM THE INSIDE OUT

TEARING AT YOUR HEART AND MIND

THE SOURCE OF YOUR LIFE

UNTIL YOU FEED IT.

IT CAN BE IN THE FORM OF YOUR OWN

OR

IMBIBING SOMEONE ELSE’S

CREATIVITY BEGS EXPRESSION OR

INTOXICATION 

/

INEBRIATION

BE IT A FLEETING EPIPHANY

YOU WRITE IN THE SAND

OR A SYMPHONY

THE ARTISTS’S CURSE

MUST BE FED

“IT’S EITHER ME OR YOU!”

AS YOU START TO TWITCH

INVOLUNTARILY REACHING FOR YOUR

HEADPHONES

AND THEN FRANTICALLY SEARCHING

FOR YOUR FAVORITE PEN

AS LYRICS BEGIN TO FORM

TO RACHMANINOV’S 4TH

THEY SPILL ONTO YOUR PAPER

UNTIL THE FINAL CODA

SATIATED, THE BEAST’S EYELIDS CLOSE

AS IT NODS INTO A PACIFIED SLUMBER

FINALLY CONTENT –

UNTIL….