Franciscan response to the situation of our society, where there are many of our brothers and sisters who are lonely or rejected by our society.



Many people have ideas around the importance of expressing feelings, and how to
connect with other people and nature. However, some persons prefer to write;
history, songs, essays, and stories, instead of poetry. Rather, poetry attracts the heart. Poetry also inspires love, spirituality, mysticism and prophecy. Poetry is
distinguished by language itself from the very first moment.

I think poetry is like music: They have similar ways how to connect ideas and the mind with other people. These are very important because both avoid distorting the original ideas. The role of poetry is for focusing attention on the personal vision of the poet. This understanding is important because both inspire a love which results in a deeper engagement with life.

My poem, “I Am Here” is encouraging. Encouraging fades the fear in our mind and
our heart. “I Am Here” displays hope, understanding, and friendship. When I wrote
that poem I thought about the world´s problems, the people´s feelings. And there, I
sorted my ideas and my feelings, pondering the world situation.

“I Am Here” expresses hope, helpfully. Over all, it expresses fraternity and that all people have value and are important for my God and for me. “I Am Here” talks to those who are hopeless in this modern world, those who think that nobody understands them, those who lost their way, those who seek for new life, for a new world and look for someone who will listen to them. Then I can say, “I am
here, we still have hope and never give up; I am your brother because you are my blessing, look at this, life is a gift.”

In conclusion, poetry is necessary to share faithfully, helpfully and prophetically in this modern world. Therefore, I would like to write more poetry for our world situation: Finally, I invite our youth and especially our elders to do whatever they can to encourage those who have lost their way or who cannot find their purpose.

Then, elders and youth will know how to share our knowledge and experience with an open mind and humility. Because, when all speak one language of charity, love, pardon, understanding and encouraging, it is then that we are making our new world.