An Endless Need to Create and Belong

Pinar K.
Mazurkas
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2 min readOct 17, 2022
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Just diving into it — like I am throwing myself to cold blue waters

In a desperate need to wake up!

I’m still mourning the part of me that is lost to brutal battles

Brutal, not because they were heavy

Brutal because they never should have been

Against cowardice that never should have been in my way

Brutal because they were the pains of growing up

Growing up that came at a cost of saying goodbye

Goodbye to my own poetry

Many times

I’ve burned the pages down… with my very own hands

Let unwanted souls to steal them from me

And almost letting them steal the source of where it all came from

As if I was running away from the mightiness of my own power

Made to believe that submission is the real victory

Lies

But I am victorious — now that I have won the war!

I might have lost a few pages in those battles

But there are endless more waiting to be written where they came from

My heart is like a fertile spring,

That’s why my parents named me this way

I was born to create and give life

And I vow to do so

Never will I ever hand down my most precious gift from the Gods again

Never will I ever be tricked again by my own longing to belong

To belong, even just a little

How sweet it would be…

But never

Not at the cost of handing my soul down.

Who knows, maybe I will find that sense of belonging somewhere else some day

Somewhere where all the non-belonging souls gather

Where they all finally belong

And create the sources of life together

Against all the odds

Against all the ignorance

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Pinar K.
Mazurkas

Thoughts on Society, Belonging, Culture and Language.