Write It, Live It

April is National Poetry Month and we at Sensi encourage you to read as much poetry as possible, write the poems that you want to get out, work on them fastidiously, and live as if Walt Whitman himself were whispering all of the world’s secrets into your ear. To that end, we give you one of our favorite Whitman poems.

O Me! O Life!
Oh me! Oh life! of the questions of these recurring,
Of the endless trains of the faithless, of cities fill’d with the foolish,
Of myself forever reproaching myself, (for who more foolish than I, and who more faithless?)
Of eyes that vainly crave the light, of the objects mean, of the struggle ever renew’d,
Of the poor results of all, of the plodding and sordid crowds I see around me,
Of the empty and useless years of the rest, with the rest me intertwined,
The question, O me! so sad, recurring—What good amid these, O me, O life?

Answer.

That you are here—that life exists and identity,
That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.