The Poet's Affliction

• Artist: SteelNerves
• Description: I wanted people to get a glimpse of the complexity of a poet. And I have this piece copywrighted in its original form.
• Date: 07/04/2011
• Tags: poets affliction

To form a bond between words and soul,
often found wandering through the wastelands
of a world with no sun and no moon.

Illumination comes to the wanderer only with the
presence of thought, the birth of an idea so powerful,
that the unspoken words crumble beneath its profundity.

From untold memories of lost love, deception, and redemption,
the wanderer seeks to translate emotion into a form of art that
has no intoxicating sounds or beautiful images at first glance.

Armed with the undefined, unspoken word that could burn the
blood of a nation or drive a man to insanity, the wanderer begins
his quest for a cure to an affliction that is unknown and unattainable.

Tormented night and day by an inner calling best left unchecked,
the wanderer fights desperately within himself to calm the storm of
self-proclaimed righteousness and zealousy, he remains a figment
of mystery to the untrained eye, and an undefined category to an
untapped mind.

Comments

[Underlying Our Love]

Okay...deepest one I've read so far, keep it going.
Most in-depth: last stanza.
I give it 3/5.