Just got home from a gig. If I take myself seriously, is it unreasonable to expect others to do the same? Have I spent the last seven years trying to build a concept, a brand, only to be treated like I am being done a favour? Is it unreasonable to expect to be treated like a professional or does being an 'artist' mean that I automatically exist at the bottom of society's food chain. Is it me? Arriving at a gig and discovering you are not even in the programme and staying to perform; am I the problem? Should I have left? Questions, questions, questions......
I have recently discovered
That I do not exist
A lifetime of laughter
Smothered
An existence extensively laced with experience
Wiped clean
Tears lived
Dried up
Blood running through arteries
Blocked
Why bother when it is a world that does not see me
That defines me
I have become the invisible man
Walking the streets without presence
I am no longer stopped
Restricted
Heard
I think
But I am not
I have become nothing
Free from responsibility
Free from duty
Free from being
Free
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1 comment:
i agree with mazungu but to be on the "list of the honoured" isnt just about how others see u, its also about them appreciating that u made an effort to be a part of their event. if it ddint matter, one would stay home where they are comfy and eat ice cream from a tub. Its just about common decency
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