Thursday, December 30, 2010

It's This Way

I stand in the advancing light,
my hands hungry, the world beautiful.

My eyes can't get enough of the trees,
they're so hopeful, so green.

A sunny road runs through the mulberries,
I'm at the window of the prison infirmary

I can't smell the medicines,
carnations must be blooming nearby.

It's this way:
being captured is beside the point,
the point is not to surrender.

Nazim Hikmet

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