The Poetry of Human Rights

A Selection of Poetry Inspired by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by High School Students from around the World, from Jordan to the Philippines to Guatemala

I am a lion because i’m strong 

I am nothing 

I think i don’t trust the things that disappear 

Because, I have learned how silence swallows what I hold dear 

Now i know the dark does not ask before it takes 

You will see me, not the roar, but what it hides 

Not the strength, but what divides the part of me i never show 

Together we will write something 

Piece by piece and line by line 

Until “the nothing" we find - 

Until the words we cannot say 

Become the ones that choose to stay  

April 16, 2:30 - 3:30pm

University of California, Berkeley

International House

2299 Piedmont Avenue

Street Parking or Stadium Parking Garage

Part of the WFI Human Rights Ambassadors Program in Partnership with Woven Teaching and Local High Schools