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How does one achieve harmony between the self and the world?
WHAT WOULD YOU DO?
If you could write a poem that no one would read
Would you write it?
You could write about your darkest secrets
Your deepest regrets
Your most painful memories
Your evil thoughts and racist views
The true self you hide from the World
How cathartic that would be
Or are some secrets better off left in their box?
What if the poem would be one of the finest?
The likes of Frost, or Oliver, or Dickenson, or Hopkins
But the world would never know
No accolades
No honors
No reason for the World to remember you
Could you live with that?
What if the poem could move the hearts
Of those who are hurting
Of those who are lonely
Of those without Hope
You could change the World
But if no one would ever read it
Why would you waste time?
If you had a poem that no one would read
Would you have no choice but to write it?
After all,
you’re a poet“Whát I dó is me: for that I came”