27 मई 2021

They’ve taken us prisoner

They’ve taken us prisoner,
they’ve locked us up:
me inside the walls
you outside

But that’s nothing.
The worst
is when people—knowingly or not—
carry prison inside themselves . . .
Most people have been forced to do this,
honest, hard-working, good people
who deserve to be loved much as I love you

–-- Nazim Hikmet
Excerpt from, 9-10pm. Poems. Translated from Turkish by Randy Blasing and Mutlu Konuk

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