ARTIST Poem: The Artist, by Ari Moretz

Create. Destroy. Craft. Then rest.
Trying to resist the pull of relapse.
Create. Destroy. Craft.
But a void stirs quietly beneath the skin.
Submit. Rejected. Dejected.
Try again.
Send another.
Apply once more.
One hundred rejections deep.
Create. Destroy.
Tethered to the life of my art.
Shards of doubt press inward, sharp and constant.
Doubt. Shout. Create. Destroy.
Create. Submit.
Create. Craft.
Bound to this aching need to make.
Rejected. Never accepted.
Despondent, I fall back again.
Create. Craft. Bound. Submit.
Create. Craft. Bound. Submit.
Create. Craft. Bound. Submit.
And then—
Accepted. Relieved. Seen. Accepted.

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