'Cannibal (Tortured Artist)' by Cierra G. Rowe

 

As an artist, you are a kind of performer; opening yourself for all to see. Perhaps your audience consumes you and your pain makes it all the more appetizing. Perhaps enough is never really enough​, for them and they are not sated until all of you, every bit, is on display. Then comes the great climax, as you are littered with roses, attention and applause. One final standing ovation from your audience of empty faces. After you have given your all and passionately emptied yourself comes silence. Only then will your audience walk away, on to the next amusement — leaving you as you lay motionless.​ This portrait is a question of what it means to be famous​ and to know, deep down, that fame is fleeting​ ​because you cannot hold everyone's attention forever. 
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