The Essential

What is creativity?
It's funny that
this is a question.
Creativity is movement.
Creativity is the battle against stagnation.
The free electricity moving in the brain.
Electricity finds a path.
The path is not something we know
beforehand. The path is found
by being pathless. This much has been said before.

It's as if a critical heat
wells up from inside,
and threatens to boil our blood.
We may burn all at once,
and be left as cold as a husk.
Art is a solution to this problem,
as much as exercise.
Without use, neurons decay,
and fearfully we see our phantoms
drift out on the headwind,
beyond our reach, beyond our tongue,
beyond our thought.
Art saves the phantom from ether,
as long as we still live,
as long as we are apart from the ether.
Without art, it is easy to slip
into a state of un-being.