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Tuesday, 30 May 2017

Breathing - Rajathi Salma

Everything happens so quickly
before I can feel it.
I keep trying to feel something
before it’s too late.
It all happens in my name
without me being there.
Flowers, people,
the world is so much bigger than me.
Should I carry on breathing
if I’m not really here?

Rajathi Salma (born 1968) India
Translated by Hari Rajaledchumy
Source: Development in Action

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