Writing for an audience that may never see your face and vice versa.
Creating stories that may never have a beginning or ending or middle.
Describing dreams as nightmare and days like nights.
Chewing up and spitting out cliches until they too become a cliche.
Dying forever just to live in a moment.
Writing a thousand words just to use one line.
Being loved and hated by strangers and yourself.
Idolizing the dead, romanticizing the fictitious, forgetting to pay the living.
(sometimes)
Understanding that your art may never pay a bill, save a life or make someone fall in love, with you or anyone else.
Being a poet is having a superpower that changes without warning and turns your villains into heroes.
Have fun with that thought.
Hear hear
