Panagiota's Lament

To be nobody - but -yourself-- in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else--means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.  E.E. Cummings       Panagiota's Lament I woke with some sadness this morning, Hesitating to write my very direct poetry, anymore! I honestly believed I could hide my fighting spirit? In some poetry that does not knock on anyone's soul door. I cannot be anyone but a soul stirrer! I try to get people to wake up and think! And too bad the masses do not like it. Of my poetry, you won't find  any close duplicate. I cringe  in pain when writing poetry to please others! Neither with quill nor in person, can that ever be. I am condemned to do exactly as E.E. Cummings said: write fearlessly! To some, I am a a good friend,  and to others? Alas, they see me with their squinty, stiff poetic or political  lens. Wanting me to write to please them? No, that will never happen, I write about what I see as true. Amen! I believe so much in poetical liberty I can't be labeled, try as many do. It's just me, knocking at your heart, pleading with you... To be wide open and to be the most joyfully, open you! August 14, 2019