Write about patriotism, about victory and defeat.
Write about revolutions and rebels and prisoners and wars. About emotions, of
love and hatred and disappointment and regret. Intangible love and uncolored
hatred and heartbreaking disappointments and abysmal regrets. Write about the
seven deadly sins, about stealth and murder and gluttony and greed. Don’t
forget to write about saints and sinners all the same. Write the poor and the
rich using the same words, make them equal for once. Write about mothers who
lost their children, about those who never had to lose; I challenge you to tell
me which hurts more. Write about darkness and light, about light in the dark
and darkness in the light. Remember to write about lost friendships, about
those who never found a shoulder when life shut its lights dim, or those who
kept the secret to their sadness within. Be fair to them too. Remind the world
of those who always had someone to love but not someone to love them back,
craft their nights and dreams carefully. Don’t forget the writers, who keep
promises with words and silence. Be subtle. Be warm. Remember heartbeats and
heartbreaks. Remember everything, remember all, equally.
And then let the world remind you: Words will never be
fair to whatever you write.
