Life of an artist

Yes, you meditate, eat well, and journal, but

do you lie?

Are you living how your great grandchildren are begging you to?

Singing through the years, “fear not!”

Are your spirit and body dancing?

Will you live in the way of an artist?

Are you so pure that you could communicate with the trees and animals,

summoning their wood and meat from the forest without taking a step?

Are you desperate to be alive?

Are you patient with God’s plan?

Did you listen deeply, the one time, the only time someone told you

how much pain they were in today?

Would your ancestors applaud if they knew you?

Would your ghost bow when it saw you?

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