Art And Suffering: A Short Poem

Maybe suffering

Does help to create art

But the artistic process

Can still be joyous

Bad feelings, doubts, regrets

Traumas, insecurities

And other malaises

Can be purged

And that’s always brought me joy 🙂

(Came up with this short poem the other day as I was trying to remember an idea I had thought of the previous night just before I fell asleep, but it’s inspired by years of of thinking on the relationship of art and suffering in all its aspects. I eventually did remember the forgotten idea and immediately wrote it down.)

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Photo by Kerry Hackett