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Click hereWe share a birthday, you and I
Do we share feelings, thoughts as well?
I feel pretentious saying that
I think there’s a connection
Spanning those sixty-three years
Yet I talk to you sometimes, as if
You were here, seeing through my eyes
If you were me
What would you see – is there a difference
In perception?
If I were you,
I would have died a year ago
We share beliefs, I know that now
In what is right,
But who am I to talk? My land is free
And yours was not -
One and the same
I can’t say I would be as brave
As you, I’ll never know
I might have kept my head down
Ignorant, I might have vanished
In the crowd
But you stood out
And though I cannot do you justice
Through a poem, let me try
To put these feelings into words
You’ve touched me just by your existence
By your death, but also
By your birth
By standing up, and shouting
And by calling for humanity
And justice, and by loving
Your own country more than
It loved you, by being willing
To let go of your own life
By raining paper onto steps
Like cleansing snow, and
Getting caught for speaking freely
In a world were it was sin
To have a mind like yours
And know that you won’t be forgotten
tribute to Sophie and it appears from your poem that she truly deserved the praise... was she German?
An excellent tribute to Sophie. This is one of those occasions when an explanatory note from the poet would be appropriate (even though the world is populated with many other Sophies).
Making me wish I had known Sophie...What a wonderful tribute to someone you loved very much..I have an idea who Sophie was but, what makes this poem great is "wanting" to know her from the way you write...Thank you Jen.....Phil
who this tribute is for, but it is lovely. Sophie would be proud.
xoxo