this is
a thankyou message to you all
who have accepted me in your community
of poets trying to articulate
what we feel is important
often it's love,
with all its ups and downs
sometimes it's death
or loss of friends and the beloved
sometimes it is political
because one cannot stand aside
when human rights are stepped upon
and hate speech threatens those
who have already lost their homes
their relatives their children
as poets
I believe
we have an obligation
not only to make life
more beautiful with our art
find words in situations
that tend to leave us speechless
but also to speak up in times
when fuzzy rhetoric
spewed forth by demagogues
tries to paint cruelties in friendly colors
and lack of principles as necessary adaption
to current times
the power of the word
not only made our world
it is the only way
to save it
Dec 23, 2015
Dec 23, 2015 at 6:45 PM UTC
this is
a thankyou message to you all
who have accepted me in your community
of poets trying to articulate
what we feel is important
often it's love,
with all its ups and downs
sometimes it's death
or loss of friends and the beloved
sometimes it is political
because one cannot stand aside
when human rights are stepped upon
and hate speech threatens those
who have already lost their homes
their relatives their children
as poets
I believe
we have an obligation
not only to make life
more beautiful with our art
find words in situations
that tend to leave us speechless
but also to speak up in times
when fuzzy rhetoric
spewed forth by demagogues
tries to paint cruelties in friendly colors
and lack of principles as necessary adaption
to current times
the power of the word
not only made our world
it is the only way
to save it
