Why Do I Write? Poem by abu tarek md tahsin

i write
because there are words
there are sentences and paragraphs
that wants to break free
that wants to dance
in maddening shapes
and touch the atmosphere
in vanity


i write
because the wind
howls inside me
the oceans
they churn memories

and they tell me stories
they make me jump in joy
and leap in agony

i write
because
i breathe

i write
because
i feel
the pain and the sorrow

i feel the child
and i feel the mother

because i feel the father
and the son and the sister

i write
because
the trials of today
and the triumphs of tomorrow
are letters marked in
songs of sorrow

i write
so you may decide
in blood and in bones
in seasons wild and plain

the days those
which were ours
only ours
to remember and rejoice
in happiness and in horror
and in hopes of
today and tomorrow.