Your Presence Slays the Beast

Originally posted April 19, 2024.

Photo by Pascal Debrunner on Unsplash

The very first
audience member 
to show up 
for your work 
is always faith
in your own talent.

The first clap
ransacking
and reverberating
hollow symposiums.

The first twinkle
within the amygdala
tickled by anticipation
of fanciful futures.

The first feast
for the duet
of black-holes
in the skull cavities.

All you.

So know
your work
is never without
at least one
seat unoccupied
so long as yourself
remains steadfast
as the carbon
in a diamond.

Zero only
ceases being
a mythical beast
when you stop
showing up
to slay it. 

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