ALCHEMY OF ART AND PAIN

 

These tears we let flow

Through art we create

Feeling painful emotions

That we no longer sedate

 

Loving to numb

Getting high was our thing

We chased euphoria

Now we live to stay clean

 

Enchained by addiction

We fled our insecurities

Gripped by toxic shame

We escaped psycho-chemically

 

Now we survive our feelings

Our emotions are psychic fuel

Alchemized by imagination

Crafting metaphors bold and new

 

Alchemy transforms

Creating precious finery

Turning base metals

Into gold psychic jewelry

 

We transform pain into art

Molding disease into creation

Supplanting addiction with connection

Awakening seismic imagination

 

We are armored by love

Ensconced in empathy

Alchemy turns pain into beauty

Potent emotional magic embodied

Collage of Basquiat is co-created by the poem’s authors

–GOTHIC ANGEL & BYPO PHOENIX c)2024

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