What Does it Mean to be Inspired?

What does it mean to be inspired?

Opening your eyes-

To look at a minute detail of beauty in this world,

And feel compelled

            Feel Urged,

            Feel forcefully pushed out of yourself,

            To fall aimlessly into the void between your body and your spirit

To a place of sudden movement in your soul

To a place of jazz-

Dancing through your fingertips,

Backbone of bass line,

Corners of the mind mingled up in the muddled marrying of percussion and trumpets

What does it mean to be inspired?

Awakening-

A prompting of your lust,

Making you feel so big and so small-

Simultaneously

Alive with energy, dancing through your body

But paralyzed with fear

Crippled in self doubt,         

            Eating-

            Gnawing-

            Secretly penetrating your aspirations for freedom of self
A freedom so innately belonging to us all,

            Yet rarely grasped by any of us-

            An elusive vagabond- both inherent, yet nakedly unurtured by all

                        Taunting-

                        Teasing-

                        Testing the strength of our innate nuances-

Testing that which makes us all tick, tock, rock, roll, wander, wade and search endlessly for more.

What does it mean to be inspired?

Managing contradiction-

With our capabilities so expansive,

But mentalities so enclosed

We are jointly inflated with promise, with poise and passion

Yet, dejected – cursed with the cancer of boredom

A boredom that sickens both the unmotivated,

And the insatiably restless, alike.

It’s only yourself that they want you to fear

It is your own life potential that compels, yet terrifies you

The society in which you live, which begs for adherence and mindless following

In a world of competition, a marathon race

Pitted against our own neighbors

Jockeying for position,

In the arena-  

            With the blood thirty audience-

            With the ruthless judge & savage jury-

            With the superficial scoreboard of reality TV

Where the grappling of oneself against the notions and images of our peers,

Leaves all parties scrambling-

           Scratching and clawing like ugly, aimless, blind filed mice

Pushing us all apart from each other,

Apart from ourselves

And the great puppeteers rely on our discontent,

To continue moving the machine forward

To continue playing the masochist game

To slog, to sift, to drag our heads, our hand and our heavy hearts around

Without ever asking, “why?”

To feel helpless and drained

To think and live as a separated drone
Alone and disjointed from others,
Needing to scream and shout and fight to assert themselves.

What does it mean to be inspired?

Withstanding through perseverance-

From hope, you continue to dance

They can’t bottle, or contain, or block you out from it

Shine inside it, moving with fire under the soles of your feet

Move in the expectations of a life-

              Of a love-

              Of an unmapped journey

That asks nothing of you in return, except enjoyment and fully opened eyes

And breathe in FEAR!

It’s not the enemy,

But a naturally occurring catalyst for change,

             Our built in system of drive

             With both negative tendencies, and gentle probing

And it can only eat you up, if you let it.

What does it mean to be inspired?

Starting Over-

So you sing

And you scream,

In madness-

In delirium-

In the hysteria, the absurdity, the utter freedom

Of a life without predetermined direction

Of a life with fear as your friend, no longer your foe

Of a life post- apocalyptic, with the walled confines of civility broken-

            And crumbling-

            And smoldering from ash

To wipe the landscape clean

And start the journey over,

            In bare, primitive, simplicity

Feeling reborn

A world uncontaminated, unconfined, untouched -

Rooted solely in the perfection of your own powerful potential

Aching for an undetermined canvas

With the deafening pitter patter of aimless creative thought,

           Dancing your mind into a world limitless and anew

Created of each our limitless magnitudes, yet bound by the million finite lives-

Existing within it.

What does it mean to be inspired?

Translating this to reality.