I really love people
but maybe that is because
my main interaction with people is through books.
How beautiful people are through books
The words bring life even if the real person falls flat.
Maybe it’s because to be writer requires empathy –
to write the details others would miss.
To be a writer is to kill apathy.
Sometimes I wonder if people who don’t read are yet living.
How can anyone spend a meaningful day not reading?
Books are what kept me alive
They alone were the only thing that gave me faith in humanity.
I have to write again, I have to do art again.
I have to do
So that I can be – So that I can fully exist
I have to create so that I can become
Until my liberties are forced out of my hands
And I am stripped of my dignity.
Until my hands are tied behind my back
And my head held against the soil
And I am spit at and told I am worthless.
I. Will. Write.
I will continue to create because I am worth something damn it.
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
reading books make a full man- continue reading- and write more thanks for sharing