Breaking Free Poem by Arnie Hicks

pretty words and disconnected phrases
tools of the self-possessed madman
- beauty laid bare in the truth of tragedy.

out where passion's pride and joy collide
follow the heart and lose the mind
- the artist's secret suffering.

thread of idle thought aimlessly followed
pristine point of insight's brevity driven home
- the innocent face of enigma winks in silent sublimation.

there between the facts of fiction
and the fabrication of certainty
- redeem the world its pettiness.

cryptic eccentricities carved of circumstance
destiny's decree covered in confusion
- witness the transitory nature of life outside the vacuum.