Poetry is art itself,
it's a struggle against silence,
it's a struggle against monopoly,
solitude, separation, loneliness...
Poetry is 'I love you'
never whispered to the secretly admired
art says 'I hate you'
but couldn't tell you face-to-face
Art is for the hating and hurting,
the love, condemnation and embrace
poetry is for those who have plunged their depths,
those who have encountered struggle herself,
those who've been hurt
and have said never again
poetry is for never forgetting
Poetry is freedom,
and freedom is to never conform,
conformity is not for poets,
not for my kind,
poetry defies the 'how-to manual'
poetry is art,
art is freedom,
a space within which we define ourselves,
find ourselves
and even...lose ourselves
Poetry is the word,
it is in the word,
within the word
and about the word,
the word spoken, recited and sung,
the word immortalised, sculpted,
painted, illustrated...
The word is life itself,
and life is a strainer of all you give her
art strains, censors the self and others
it builds, destroys and rebuilds
Poets recite, speak and sing
poets write and sing words,
they condemn and embrace...
poets are in a race,
a race in which the prize,
is to know who they are...
