Wednesday, July 3, 2013

Optimism

I write poems
they don't get published
but they will

I'm waiting for a letter with good news
maybe it will arrive the day I die
but it will come for sure

the world's not ruled by governments or money
but by people
a hundred years from now
maybe
but it will be for sure

           2 September 1957
           Leipzig
           Nazim Hikmet