Can I simply live? I don’t dramatize my pain or romanticize my grief, but I live in a tragedy; one filled with pain, lodged in grief, untold and unseen. My heart leans on songs depicting love without tragedy and on poems woven to hurt and to make me cry. I think of the past. It was good. It is good. Safe! Warm! Very warm!
“Don’t Say You’re Afraid” by Jozpa Katutsela
About a Somali girl who tried to live in peace and achieve her dreams away from war, but she drowned in the the sea while trying to reach her dream.