Inspiration and aspiration
For artistic expression
Can spark up from anything really…
A kiss, a smile, a touch;
Inspiration can even come to you right now
While you are sitting still
Without saying much.
Because at the end of the day,
Inspiration is like a seed
That can sprout
From a barren desolated desert
From a minuscule grain a salt
From a tiny speck of dust.
You can even get it
While you are having inappropriate feelings of lust!
When you wake and bake
When you take a leap of faith
When you deliberately take yourself
Out of your comfort zone.
When you condone and embrace the unexpected,
When you uproot yourself from self-denial
And lend a hand to those who have been neglected
By the grace of god,
In the face of adversity
And mental scarcity.
Personally speaking…
My inspiration comes
During my most monumental
Yet turbulent moments.
During my times of glory and self-defeat
During those times when everything is perfectly flawed,
And unexpectedly neat.
During those times when I feel like
Dancing in the rain
In front of the White House,
During those times when I feel like
I am protesting in vain
In front of such white supremacist crack house,
During those times when I feel like
All of those people in power
Ought to be doing their jobs
Instead of selling their souls
To such Republican whorehouse.
Yet!
Despite of all of these brief disturbances,
Inspiration still propels me forward
And allows me to attain the inconceivable.
It ultimately encourages my right side of the brain
To grab my magical pen
And write down these sacred scriptures
With my lefty
Crafty hand,
So then I can reclaim
My God-given right to deploy
Exhilarating joy
To all of you guys.
However,
As I dig deeper into this blissful creative process
I often come into conflict
With my inner voices
Multiple personalities
Constantly feeding me with high doses
Of counterproductive forces
That can only be counteracted by,
Self-inculcating my mind
With self-motivating thoughts;
So then
I can rapture myself
With unconditional self-love
So then
I can inspire audiences
Across the hemisphere,
Galvanize social movements
Beyond the stratosphere.
So then
My vociferous voice reverberates
And lives through generations;
Achieve immortality
With my theatrical creations.
So then
I can touch my predecessors
With a mere gesture
That transcends through time and space,
So then
I can amaze my beautiful crowds
And thus establish a harmonious foundation
For a perennial connection
In this present perfection.
© Piero G. Sarmiento Alosilla
Excerpt from the book Poems of Provocative Motivation
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About the Author

Piero G. Sarmiento Alosilla is a theatrical poet, medical interpreter and a multilingual educator from Lima, Peru. He was raised in an artistic world, due to his parents’ involvement in the fields of Dramatic Arts, Painting, Screen-Writing and TV Production. In 2014, Piero moved to Washington D.C. where he discovered his passion for Spoken Word Poetry and Motivational Speaking. Piero uses poetry as therapeutic tool to heal, provoke inspiration and arise feelings of cathartic joy to audiences across the globe. He mostly writes about self-help, touching upon the concepts of gratitude, optimism and interracial relations in the form of satire. He is a holistic and energetic artist who intends to raise awareness with his spiritual approach.
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