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\"art_paint\"<\/a><\/p>\n

you are, who sees beauty in a leper\u2019s face
\nwhen no one else will even glance<\/span>
\nyou who in moments of shame, still smile
\nbecause \u201clife ain\u2019t that serious,\u201d you say<\/span>
\nwho at night sits in silence to hear the moon\u2019s whisper,
\nbecause inspiration is born in those words<\/span>
\nwho sees shapes morphing in clouds but never thinks
\nthey\u2019re animals like the clich\u00e9 dictates<\/span><\/p>\n

who dances for hours and days and weeks and months
\nto an inner rhythm only you hear<\/span>
\nwho finds the skeleton of a broken piano in the trash,
\nlugs the thing home and hangs it because you see art in garbage<\/span>
\nwho still wears 20 year old dirty converse because
\nthose yellow stains remind you of a love long gone<\/span>
\nyou who feels a pigeon\u2019s garbled song in the mad noise of downtown New York City
\nwho hears beats in the rattle and roll of an A train expressing uptown
\nwho loves the stench and perfume bending in the city streets
\nat 4am when everyone\u2019s wide awake with scents of nightlife<\/span>
\nyou are, who sits with homeless men for a talk and smoke,
\nrather than zooming past wearing blinders like horses<\/span><\/p>\n

you whose words seep in from left and right and later mingle on paper
\nyou who makes love, not war, when others lavish in loud battle cries
\nyou lonely voyager, who follows only your disposition,
\nwho moves through life with pick and fork carving your road forward
\nyou who needs no ratification to justify your art
\nyou create, not because you want to, but because you have to
\nyou paint and never finish, but the act itself is art, not the product
\nyou question your self, you have self doubt
\nbut you are an artist, if you read this poem.<\/p>\n

\u00a9Wilson Santos 2013<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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