I Am Stronger (When We are Stronger Together)
I discovered suffering
at 18. Not my own
suffering, but rather the
kind of suffering that happens
when people let bad things happen
and do nothing.
Before that I was just
a culmination of words
and helpless gestures.
I was just trying to find a place
to lie down and sleep.
Really becoming a human
means understand that others
are just as complex and intricate
as yourself. That the suffering
of your body mirrors
the suffering of someone else's body,
that every word of pain you whisper in the dark
is the same word in a different language
whispered back to you.
People will tell you that you
can't change things, that only
things can change you. They are
lying. Every blood drop in
the circulatory system is important,
the loss of one might not be noticed,
but continuous loss will cause death.
When no one works
to change
we all die.
I discovered myself
when I realized the pain
of others was as real as my pain,
and when I decided
to do something about that.