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Sunday morning sunrise
and the world awakens again,
the silence broken only by
the sound of your pen
scratching the surface
of the page.
It's the same each morning.
You don’t know what
your voice sounds like
until you take the risk
of opening your mouth
and letting the words
tumble out, half-formed,
until you let your pen
begin moving across the page,
to see what
Through a stroke of fate—in the way that we find books waiting on
the shelf for us, sometimes for years, without us being aware of their
existence—I came across Hans Fallada’s Every Man Dies Alone, a novel for adults
based on the true story of a couple who dared raise their voices against the
Nazi propaganda machine and attempted to tell the truth to other Germans. The
novel was published in 1947
Great book recommendation and review, Bruce. Also thank you for the reminder to read Susan Bartoletti's excellent work, EVERY MAN DIES ALONE. I call it excellent before reading it, because I've read lots of Susan's writing in the past and can't imagine this book would be anything but excellent.
Thanks, Dianne, for the kind words. It's always a surprise, I find, how one book leads to the next. By the way, Susan's book is titled The Boy Who Dared. And you're right. It's excellent!