The working artist's catechism
All I need to go is just some beauty
not disturbed by any ugliness,
some positive environment
without destructive elements,
to dream and think in peace creatively
without importuning brutality to wake you up,
harmonious and melodious music without noise
and friends to cheer you up
instead of negligent and ignorant indifference around you,
and so forth, some gratitude, appreciation, recognition
of the good you try to do in life
instead of insolence, ingratitude and inhumanity.
Is that to ask too much? I need not money,
wealth or property, I have no greed to satisfy,
but let my spirit just go on remaining active and constructive,
and let time take notice of it and not just completely let me down,
and I shall be content when I am dead
to have at least been working hard in all my life
to some result of more than only nothingness.
Poetry by Christian Lanciai
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Written on 2007-05-31 at 19:11
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