Can I Listen To Your 'Art' ?

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Can I listen to your heart?

Cause that’s all you’ve got

Can I listen to your heart?

In it is something unique

A story maybe

A song maybe

You’ve got a great voice

But can I listen to your heart still

You got an amazing persona

But can we get a glimpse of your heart

You’ve got a skilled public speaking style

But can I hear your heart beyond it all

In the heart live the treasures of darkness

Some hide their heart for the evil it might reveal

I say reveal your heart for the glory it might redeem

In the heart is something priceless

A gift for all men is kept in there by God

The unwise try to preserve the heart by keeping it locked up

But to reveal the heart is to preserve it

To reveal our hearts is to keep us going

I know a writer somewhere far away who keeps forging from her heart

It doesn’t bring the money

But somehow she isn’t going to leave the earth with what she was meant to give

when she leaves, she is a fulfilled being ready to rest

I know a superstar, maybe here, maybe there

Who keeps it all inside and sells all on the outside

The last I heard of her, she laid in a pool of her own blood

She sold her soul but never gave her heart

Can I listen to your heart?

You who sing beautiful songs with no beauty

And speak holy words in an unholy manner

In your heart is a gift

Cause when it comes from the heart there is a shift

Cause when we speak from the heart

Our words are worth more than works of art.

P.S. – For everyone who cages art in professionalism, it would do us good to ask ourselves from time to time ‘Where is the expression when it is caged?’

Stepping Out:

‘The creator and his work are one’

Are you are writer, singer, artist or someone involved in creative processes?

Do you see a part of you in your work?

Or better said does your work reflect what you believe?

When an artist doesn’t reflect his work it might point to some things much deeper. He is probably hiding behind his work. He is not comfortable with the story he has found himself in, so he seeks to paint a picture perfect story for a world that hungers for his own unique story.

In what ways can you communicate more from the heart through your art?

What chains are holding you down in doing this?

What are you doing about it?

"For art to speak, It must be from the heart."