There seems to be
in society
strict expectations to a poet’s production
I’ve often been told
that my poems
are useless to reform society
Why should I write
to reform society?
There’s tons of other people who
wants to do –
so why me too?
Why can’t you just let poetry
be poetry,
untarnished by political intrigues
and hollow statements
I have no wish to reform society
through such statements
aimed at a few people
with even fewer thoughts
I will much rather reform
each heart that has been hurt,
each eye that has seen horror
and turn tears of agony
to tears of joy
by removing layer by layer
the shadowy veil over people’s eyes
The veil that has been placed
partly by politics
And allowing them to reform themselves
at their own pace, in their own Way –
without signing them
each reader a poem
unsigned
So that, when afterwards the ballots
have been forgotten
on a beautiful summer’s day
where happy, healthy people
have retired to the beach –
splashing in the water,
building castles in the sand,
laughing
all real –
the politicians will look at one another
and out through the toned glass sheets,
and none of them will understand
that it wasn’t
entirely
of its own making
