Yes, I understand.

 To see someone pouring their heart and mind and soul into the spaces between the letters,

To the ones handcrafting souvenirs, and knitting warm blankets for cold souls telling them, Yes, I understand.

To entangle those feelings and their depths with the shapes of these letters as if using the veins in their body to hold them together,

To give these words life with blood, sweat, and tears

To give them power over people’s minds and hearts, and yet not overpower them,

To put these letters at ease, though they’re weighed down by the responsibility/duty to carry all of these, 

To freeze a moment, a tear or the curve of a smile, the sparkle in someone’s eyes or the emotion in one’s heart, into a train of letters,

To let them flow like the air and take distinct shapes like water in a vessel,

To carefully piece together this plethora of letters, into poetry

Or to weave them into one fabric of a beautiful prose,

To leave hints of oneself intertwined between the knots that hold the words together,

To muster the courage to speak up, 

To be vulnerable, placing their hearts on the platter as they write, 

To trust, and to share in another’s emotions, 

To be there without being there, 

To let the ones that read, discover that the magic they feel is nothing else but the breath and the burning ardor of the one that writes,

To the minds that speak and the fingers that let out these gushing rivers of thought, 

To the touch that yields magic and yet, stays rooted in humility,

To every thought that still weighs down on the heart of the writer, waiting to be free,

To every cry, every groan, every silenced word, and every unexpressed emotion,

I know how much you’ve burdened yourselves with, and also that you do it out of love and not obligation,

And to all of you who add value, who take a step forward to understand, and be understood,

Yes, I understand

You really do make a difference

You really make the world a better place, 

You really are important. To the ones like you and even the others that are not.


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