Saturday, April 9, 2011

Internal Pressure

Have you ever felt the internal pressure
Inherent in the creative process?
When the urge to write/draw/paint/craft
Just fills you...
To the bursting point

And you will just not-so-spontaneously combust
If the pressure isn't released...


Sometimes the creative process is full of pain and sorrow. It feels like, at times, that not only am I working the crazy out, but that I am intentionally poking the crazy with a stick. It feels dangerous and generally unwise. I felt the same way when I took shrooms, once upon a time, but the path of creating takes me on darker,  more frightening paths than the magical mushrooms ever did, and ever could. 

And I go along those paths with my eyes wide open...

Full near to bursting and never to know
The end result of the creative flow
Bursting forth like water from a dam
Or better yet, giving birth to a piece with its own life,
It's own influence,
It's own soul...

Internal pressure, the drive to immortality.
Crying out for release, to make my stain
A cumstain on humanity's collective memory

Remember me
Remember me

Hoping to echo through the ages
Probably to end up fading into a whisper
Like so many other whispers
Voices fading into white noise
At one with the echo of the Big Bang

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