Only words

Art as life, art is life, ought not to be rendered post expression as it is expression and that is all it ever has been. Ought not to be judged as in "Ours is not to reason why...".

men that i never met

taught me all

the things

i had longed to know.

all the truths in

this life

which, throughout my adolescence i had

questioned,

sitting there on a page,

on a screen,

in a song,

answered.

the men i never met,

they told me

“there is no secret”,

“there is no god,

do not waste your time praying”,

“it does not get any easier”.

and i can never thank the men

i never met enough

for that.