Title: Where the Wild Winds Blow

Royal Club for Literature and Peace 

Title: Where the Wild Winds Blow

Kasia Dominik

Title: Where the Wild Winds Blow

I bear a mark on my skin,

an invisible burden, a cruel thorn.

The clock keeps ticking,

and even if I fall,

I am reborn.

It doesn't own me,

it's only the wind that wants to break me.

But in my eyes I have the fire of dawn.

I rise, though my body aches,

though my soul wants to give up.

Yet I hold tight,

the words: "Don't be afraid, you have a reason to live."

It's a long, dark road,

with steps I can't predict.

But I have faith in me,

and no one can take it away from me..

The battles I've lost, the wounds I've sustained

remind me that I am still...

I know the end seems inevitable,

but today I breathe, and that's enough for me

to smile.

I am more than this endless struggle,

than a diagnosis, a sentence without appeal.

I am a small piece of eternity.

Kasia Dominik

(Poland)

documentation: Waffaa Badarneh