by Zorica Vukovic
Published on: Dec 10, 2004
Topic:
Type: Poetry

Have you ever thought that
Creative people are at risk?
And that they are at risk
All the time, too?
Not only the risk
For their life
As all the other, too
But for the risk of their
Creation that can fulfill
Their lives and lives of many
Or it can be bound to fail
To become its own opposite
Or to stay unrecognized
Or just misunderstood
Abandoned, relinquished

In any case, the way they are,
Without knowing anyone’s fate,
They are here, bound to create!
To change something, or
Someone’s or their own selves
From one state into the other,
To construct and share the idea
Or to destruct first and shock
The others for some reason, some way.

That’s why it’s important
That they have strong
Ethical principles - to
Prevent them from destroying
The life on the planet -
Whether their ethics comes
From their philosophy, God
Or life among the others.


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The sense of the justice
And higher, cosmic harmony
Is inevitable for the creative ones
Otherwise they can make
Massive destructions
And cause lots of disasters
Catastrophes, pain and loss,
Cause lots of unhappiness
Even if that is just a “benign”
Loss, shown and known as
Self-destructive behaviour.

Who is able to feel it, to learn, accept
And commit to that, which one has truly
Approached one step closer
To the gift and passion
Of being truly creative
On no one’s expense. Harming no one.

All the others are more
Likely to be creating
Without any special cause
But driven by the secret drive
To destroy and possibly wound
The others or themselves
Their cardiograms can tell
If someone could read
Between the lines ….

There’s nothing wrong with that.
Just there are so many natural
Disasters and causes of pain,
Why add another
For the sake of someone’s “creation”
Be it in life or in science?
The Art can show us the way…

Which is the formula of creation?
Idea > drive > destruction > creation
Or is it all happening at the same time?
Cooking in the same cauldron of the
Cranial cauldron, brewing creative minds.

What is what we should do?
Having in mind the long range, the future?
Being wise, reaching for intangible
Challenges of the spirit and mind
Because each animal can reach tangible.

The first thing one can do is to make
Its own portrait in his youth and
Follow the path, no matter how
Sometimes it feels like it strays
From the lives led by the others.

The life is so integral, and the only
Way to see you as a whole is
To travel its whole length
Not loosing yourself, but
Searching the answers to your
Questions, having the quest and
Never forget where you started
Nor why, which is even more important.

The creation of yourself and knowing it
May be the most important creation of human life.
Not that it’s the most magnificent,
Though, there’s a lot of space and time in life
For realizing the most magnificent creations
Other than yourself along your road
Whether you do it in company or alone.


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The main goal of human creation
Is the reaching of the untouchable, the soul.
That is the only future for generations ahead
Like it was already truth for those who lived before.

A qualitative change that has already happen
And is happening each time when the new
Creation that will enrich us is born
Reaching the intangible is the main goal.

Someone should travel from the West to the East
To find wisdom, truth, peace, love and harmony
And get enlightened some moment, for one’s life.
The other one should travel from the East to the West
For the exactly the same cause, and there are the ones
Who should just stay right there where they are and
Breathe into another morning of their lives but
All would do better nourishing and respecting
Themselves (not egos) and their roots.

There are the ones who are more attached to their soil,
The land or the nature surrounding them, becoming one,
There are the ones who are bound to discover
New continents, new people or new states of mind
To find out where they belong… But the truth is one.

We all belong somewhere.
To the Universe.
And we all feel for something.
There’s a whole life to discover what for.
We are all made out of the tiniest,
Unknown and unseen particles
Of the eternal cosmic dust and
God given energies of their flow.

Be it our bodies or our souls it’s all one and endless
Eternal and non–destroyable as the matter in space
Transformed by the energy, into the energy by time
It is what we call life, but don’t always feel it that way.

The matter of the “things” those we call “objects”
Is also living, learning and transforming, like in any
Of us or in the beings we call alive, in our culture.
It’s the chemistry of the Universe where there are no
Borders of the being, nor between them, you see?

Even these words and this message you can get here
Is not a construct of a single mind, it isn’t mine,
Nor is the meaning that you derive from it only yours
All said to you is not ours any longer, and my voice is
Just transferring the messages transcending from
The World of many who have lived and are to live yet.

Even my mind doesn’t belong to me
To the contrary of my brain
Which is physical and can be
Exalted, wasted, bored, and,
Finally even destroyed so easily.

My mind is what is shared
With the humanity through
The endless and continual
Radiation of love and understanding
Belonging and feeling the same
Creative or just Human way.


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