Must I Suffer For My Art (Peaceful Poetry) by Ryan "Little King" Marshall

Must I Suffer For My Art?
Must I cry artistic tears?
is it what leaks out from my heart
that isolates me from my peers?
If my love for songs and rhyme
is what keeps me breathing breath
Than why is it at the same time
it's what draws me close to death?
Must I live for what's exquisite ?
Is Exquisite in my soul?
Will the anguish that escorts it
be my artworks greatest foe?
Or will it be it's triumph
and the thing that gets the praise
is my artwork my whole life or just a phase?

I had to feature this poem. Take it in, all the aspiring artist out there ask your self this question...hell I asked myself the question as well.