artist
your power is
telling the story
of the demise of happy empires and sexy lovers
or the birth of legend the birth of love
the feelings all of us didn’t know we could feel
while your characters and subjects
your heroes and your lovers
your dancers destroyers makers
were so down in it they could not feel
the lessons being learned
the fates being followed
as they happened
artist
this is power
like some massive all powerful stomach
churning and mixing
making connections between the things no one sees
providing the only nutrition
that is truly human
to all of us humans
the ability to feel what others feel
like some kind of optical instrument
that is both microscope and telescope on demand
providing the only vision
that is truly a sight worth seeing
the ability to understand
