Art is the passion of the mind when the thought is of life or death.

Is one a fake if one must ask “What is art?”

A forger of a work of genius is unaware of creative passion.

Who will give it thought

to decipher the phony from the work of skill except those with an ardent mind.

To be counterfeit is to be unknowing of life

and lost to all reflections save for death.

In the brain and in the body, the paint and canvas, breathing death.

One is like a larva to ask, “What is art?”

It is Life!

As a soul of passion

is an inventive mind

and inspired thought.

Certainly, to claim original thought

is to escape death,

for what is an eternity without the validation of the masterwork? In mind,

a desiccated worm on a sizzling sidewalk, the canvas of hell is an imitation of art.

If one is not filled with the maker then one is made empty of passion

and dead; even the maggot can not feed on the corpse of a hollow life.

One is just as one was before one was born, dead to life

but given by God the opportunity of thought,

the young insect, by divine passion

and by God’s command overcomes death,

the caterpillar becomes a butterfly, a hollow cocoon left to decay, all that is and was and will be, Art.

To subsist is to understand the lack of euphemisms and not mind,

yet the phony proclaims, “Air is all that consists of the mind”

and being born one survives to pass away throughout life

and this is true with one exception that carries on beyond the grave, Art!

So rather than exist to fear fatality in thought

rejoice in creation beyond death

that is of God in holy passion.

The canvas of heaven is hot with passion

just as the path to hell scorches the mind

with notions of perpetual creation without art

but in a time without end, death becomes life

when one excepts one’s design as willed by God’s thought

and one’s existence as God’s art.

If in life one’s mind can be in this world as an artist,

and align each imaginative thought with God’s passion

Then one becomes a masterpiece beyond death as sentient and awe-inspiring art.