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I know the secret behind art

I know the secret behind art.

 

It isn’t beauty

or love.

Beauty and love are expressive words

about art,

but they do not form art.

It is the pain and fear

of love and beauty.

The pain of having

and

the fear of losing.

And the fear comes from the knowledge

that you will have to face it

someday.

And the pain is always there,

lurking behind beauty

that is called art.

 

All those bad memories, sad days.

On those days or after,

you relieve yourself of the pain,

so you can face another day

made of pain.

Between the moments of relief and pain

are the days filled with fear.

And whenever you write,

you write of fear or pain,

in the seek of beauty and love

between your words of fantasy.

 

I know the secret behind art.

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Published
May 17, 2012
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