If you wrote a poem about a stranger′s childhood,
Would you go and live there?
You might write about friendless mornings
Or wasted potential
Lines about unrequited love or about bullying.
Maybe you'll have to rhyme violence with innocence
Can you create metaphors about visible and invisible scars?
The smell of alcohol and the echoes of screams
Be prepared to write verses about death,
Your story might include first breaths in the war
Or last breaths anywhere in the world
Bear in mind that you might write about the broken
that became worse than their parents
Or about the broken that never met their parents
Are you...