Reality of a Poet
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Remember that a community with problems is different from a problem community.
You are a vessel of stories. Your duty is to deliver the story. Your poem is bigger than yourself.
I love being told what I cannot say because I will find a hundred different ways to say it anyway because you told me what I cannot say but you never told me how I should not say it. And that is the power of an artist.
It's not about how loud your voice is or how quiet your voice is, the point is you have a voice and you need to use it.