Ep. 8 - IN-Q | How to Turn Pain into Wisdom w/ Creativity & Art

Mark Metry Show

Join me and my guest, IN-Q on a discussion on creativity, healing, modern masculinity, America's challenging problems with mental health, and much more.
IN-Q is a National Poetry Slam champion, award-winning poet, and multi-platinum songwriter. His groundbreaking achievements include being named to Oprah's SuperSoul 100 list of the world's most influential thought leaders, being the first spoken word artist to perform with Cirque Du Soleil, and being featured on A&E, ESPN, and HBO's Def Poetry Jam.
He's inspired audiences around the world through his live performances and storytelling workshops. Many of his recent poetry videos have gone viral with over 70 million views combined.
Contemplating universal issues of love, loss, forgiveness, transformation, and belief, Inquire Within shines a light on our lives and brings peace and inspiration in these uncertain times. Rhythmic. Original. Authentic. Inspiring. A journey to the center of the soul, Inquire Within is a provocative and entertaining debut from an award-winning poet. You'll never look at poetry the same way again.
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LYRICS
Walking through
walking through
the rows
Walking through
when no one else knows
they don’t know what we been through
now I'm on a podcast with in-q
watch us grow at last into what we meant to,
be
watch us grow like a seed
ditch the illusions that they feed us,
living in a world where we grew up as rejects, tried to tell ‘em our truth but they say it’s too esoteric,
global pandemic caused another epidemic
of mental health, problems, that came in our minds just to rob em, and haunt em, and put ‘em at rock bottom
nervous system tweaking out
had to go below the surface just to figure it out
had to take what I thought,
what I felt, but what I’m not
but what I meant
and put it all back into art
all the pain and frustrations, in my heart~
I thought I lost myself due to complications in my mark
had to spend a couple months, by myself in the dark
I started writing poems
started speaking with the poets
all of a sudden I see how my whole mind opens
creativity, wit the flow
maturity is when you know
when to let it go
stand in the darkness,
light it up by being honest
like In-Q and I are artists
(yeah)
we create because it's cathartic
(yeah)
even when life gets the hardest
(yeah)
you gotta look at yourself and go even harder
(yeah)
Mark Metry show
With In-Q
Let's go