I have something to say

As has anyone who’s ever made

Anything worth enjoying

Nobody can destroy it

Left unchecked it mutates

Bleeding desperation to create

Collapses me like a star

Sickness inside my heart

Whenever I fear death

I think of that which

I would fear much more

Never dying

Is that what you all

Are striving for

I leave a stream of greenery

In every path I walk

Chased by a monster

Of a thousand voices

That always wants

One more

Please don’t ever

Take it from me

Changes the colour

Of the air that I breathe

In grief’s fertile land

The space in between

Clapping hands

They say it’ll pass

I used to pray

That it would

But its absence

Never brought

Anything good

I wake in the morning

Do all of my chores then

Of thinking in silence

And drinking sweet wine

Putting my mind

Somewhere outside

Where it can feel the sun

Maybe it’ll connect

With someone

The world’s the world

And I’m a person

In a tiny body

I vow to live

I won’t let fear

Be anything

That stops me

I’m not a violent person

But I make things

With aggression

I’m not a violent person

But my work is

One exception

I won’t let you

Take it from me

Changes the colour

Of the air that I breathe

I wasn’t always tortured

I made art long before then

I call into the void

Until I lose my voice but

Sometimes a cry

Reverberates back

A child with

Mud caked hands

Or a prolific and obsessive

Older man

I’d do it unpaid

Unseen

Unthanked

Its worth more than

Anything that I have

You can never

Have it ever

You can never

Have it ever

You can never

Have it ever

I won’t let you

Take it from me

Changes the colour

Of the air that I breathe

I won’t let you

Take it from me

Changes the colour

Of the air that I breathe

I won’t let you

Take it from me