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While hungry mothers drag their bodies through the morning,
pondering what they will give their children for lunch today,
in this dislocated world,
I choose children.
In the wounds, sorrow languishes.
Centuries folded in the veins.
Like a boundary between the abyss
into which humanity sinks.
Traumas are transmitted
from grandmother to granddaughter,
from mother to daughter.
Sons bow their heads
seeking mercy for their mothers.
Fathers' bones shiver.
Stomachs break from pain.
Step out onto the streets.
Be a body
fragile as glass.
If you break,
let it be on
wooded ground.
Invent something for me.
So the world can be more beautiful.
Let's not close our eyes.
The margins reveal more clearly.
Be my color.
Draw pillars of shame
with clusters of children's smiles.
Let the barbed wire fences burst,
and let the walls weep anew.
(D. R.)
Darija Rupčić
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Darija Rupčić Kelam is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Philosophy in Osijek, at the Department of Philosophy. She holds a Ph.D. in philosophy and intertwines her two great loves, dance and philosophy. She has also become a dance and movement therapist at the Postgraduate Specialist Study of Creative Therapies at the Academy of Culture and Arts in Osijek.
Curious, intuitive, imaginative, she enriches herself through additional training in workshops and techniques of contemporary dance and physical theater, where she perfects her knowledge and skills. Through her clinical practice, with her inexhaustible energy and great capacity for empathy, she seeks to enrich and help human lives, considering it her calling.
Besides dance, which is her life, driving force, and personal expression, her hobbies and interests include writing poetry, prose, philosophical essays, and scientific papers on existential themes. She loves nature, rivers, mountains, poetry, photography, philosophy, art, traveling, and sports. She plays the ukulele, dances salsa, ballet, jazz dance, and pole dance. She is the mother of three wonderful, talented, and empathetic children.
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