Human Dignity

It cannot be measured with coins or weighed on scales.

It is the root that, even if the wind bends the stem,

never forgets the sky toward which it rises.

It is the light that filters through the darkest cracks,

when everything seems to be collapsing,

and remains a flame that no one can extinguish.

It has no price and is not given away for convenience.

It dwells in every heart like a sacred territory:

no one occupies it without permission,

no one reduces it to what you possess or cease to possess.

It is the pulse that does not stop in the face of injustice,

the voice that, even if it trembles, does not fall silent,

the certainty that you are worth what you are,

not what the world says you are worth.

It can be wounded, it can grow weary,

but it never completely surrenders.

Because it is like the ground we walk on:

even if covered with rubble,

it remains earth capable of blossoming.

 It is your essence, intact, undeniable,

what no one can take from you:

the right to be you,

standing tall, whole, free.

GRACIELA NOEMI VILLAVERDE is a writer and poet from Concepción del Uruguay (Entre Rios) Argentina, based in Buenos Aires She graduated in letters and is the author of seven books of poetry, awarded several times worldwide. She works as the World Manager of Educational and Social Projects of the Hispanic World Union of Writers and is the UHE World Honorary President of the same institution’s Activa de la Sade, Argentine Society of Writers. She is the Commissioner of Honor in the executive cabinet in the Educational and Social Relations Division of the UNACCC South America – Argentina Chapter.