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The Weight of Indifference
Inspired by Gerta Spieß’s haunting lines, “There’s nothing to be done,” this poem, The Weight of Indifference, examines the moral cost of inaction. It reveals how silence and apathy chain the oppressed and stain the conscience of the innocent. A call to confront the guilt born of indifference, it urges us to speak and act, even when trembling, for silence is the crime of care.
What marks the gu...
Monday 3rd February 2025 10:43 am
The Price of Submission
This poem tries to explore the personal and societal consequences of living under a prospecitve dictatorship, where the truth is silenced, and freedom of the press is crushed. Through the fate of figures like Jim Acosta, the poem reflects on the heavy price of speaking out against tyranny and the loss of voice in a world where obedience reigns. A stark warning of what happens when dissent is erase...
Monday 3rd February 2025 9:24 am
Silent Witness
A haunting reflection on complicity and silence, Silent Witness tries to capture the slow erosion of solidarity in the face of oppression. With each passing stanza, the weight of inaction grows heavier—until it is too late.
They came in the night, but I turned away,
Not my fight, not my place to say.
One by one, they vanished unseen,
Yet I stood still, my hands kept clean.
When the knoc...
Sunday 2nd February 2025 5:26 pm
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