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Poetry: Why I Write

Graphic Nadine Abdellatif

    Why I Write

     

    I write to fill empty pages

    with feelings I want to be 

    reminded to forget. 

     

    I write to scribble and 

    burn my thoughts, so they 

    absorb the page with ink 

    for those words

                    to never go away. 

     

    I write and hate and 

    write some more 

    until that hate turns

    into grief. 

     

    I write so one day

    maybe

                   just

    maybe 

    I’ll remember 

                    why I hate it so much.