Why I Write

Mottakeenur Rehman

 

What is changed by making marks,
or by holding the ink inside?
I am not hungry.
I am not poor.

It is older than choice—
this returning to paper,
known or unknown.
It is my climate.

But sometimes, from a distant city,
another keeper of silence
will signal through the noise
and repeat the old, necessary question:

What quiet engine in the chest
manufactures, without market or need,
this surplus of untranslated sound?

  • Author: Mottakeenur Rehman (Online Online)
  • Published: December 24th, 2025 04:01
  • Category: Unclassified
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