You are not decoration. 
You are not luxury. 
You are necessity. 

When the world fractures into noise, 
you are the thread that pulls silence into shape. 
When language of power collapses into slogans, 
you restore words to their marrow, 
you return them to blood, to breath. 

You are the witness who doesn’t look away. 
You are the mirror that refuses to lie. 
You are the fire in the throat of people 
who have forgotten they still have voices. 

They will say poetry does not feed. 
They will say it cannot mend broken systems. 
But you know— 
it feeds what hunger cannot name, 
it stitches what power has torn open, 
it plants seeds in soil scorched bare by greed. 

You are not writing for applause. 
You are writing for survival. 
You are writing for memory. 
You are writing so that truth does not dissolve. 

In a world that rushes toward forgetting, 
you slow down time. 
You open a wound to show its light. 
You open a sky inside a page. 

Every line you carve is resistance. 
Every stanza is shelter. 
Every poem is a lantern— 
and without you, darkness grows too easily. 

So, write poet. 
Write until the world remembers 
what it means to feel, 
to rage, 
to dream, 
to stay alive. 

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