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| 'Your Lifelong Prisoner' – Liu Xiaobo's poem from prison | 'Your Lifelong Prisoner' – Liu Xiaobo's poem from prison |
| (7 days later) | |
| To Xia | To Xia |
| My dear,I'll never give up the struggle for freedom from the oppressors'jail, but I'll be your willing prisoner for life. | My dear,I'll never give up the struggle for freedom from the oppressors'jail, but I'll be your willing prisoner for life. |
| I'm your lifelong prisoner, my loveI want to live in your dark insidessurviving on the dregs in your blood | I'm your lifelong prisoner, my loveI want to live in your dark insidessurviving on the dregs in your blood |
| inspired by the flow of your estrogen | inspired by the flow of your estrogen |
| I hear your constant heartbeatdrop by drop, like melted snow from a mountain streamif I were a stubborn, million-year rockyou'd bore right through medrop by drop | I hear your constant heartbeatdrop by drop, like melted snow from a mountain streamif I were a stubborn, million-year rockyou'd bore right through medrop by drop |
| day and night | day and night |
| Inside youI grope in the darkand use the wine you've drunkto write poems looking for youI plead like a deaf man begging for soundLet the dance of love intoxicate your body | Inside youI grope in the darkand use the wine you've drunkto write poems looking for youI plead like a deaf man begging for soundLet the dance of love intoxicate your body |
| I always feelyour lungs rise and fall when you smokein an amazing rhythmyou exhale my toxinsI inhale fresh air to nourish my soul | I always feelyour lungs rise and fall when you smokein an amazing rhythmyou exhale my toxinsI inhale fresh air to nourish my soul |
| I'm your lifelong prisoner, my lovelike a baby loath to be bornclinging to your warm uterusyou provide all my oxygenall my serenity | I'm your lifelong prisoner, my lovelike a baby loath to be bornclinging to your warm uterusyou provide all my oxygenall my serenity |
| A baby prisonerin the depths of your beingunafraid of alcohol and nicotinethe poisons of your lonelinessI need your poisonsneed them too much | A baby prisonerin the depths of your beingunafraid of alcohol and nicotinethe poisons of your lonelinessI need your poisonsneed them too much |
| Maybe as your prisonerI'll never see the light of daybut I believedarkness is my destinyinside youall is well | Maybe as your prisonerI'll never see the light of daybut I believedarkness is my destinyinside youall is well |
| The glitter of the outside worldscares meexhausts meI focus onyour darkness –simple and impenetrable | The glitter of the outside worldscares meexhausts meI focus onyour darkness –simple and impenetrable |
| Reprinted by permission of Harvard University Press from No Enemies, No Hatred: Selected Essays and Poems by Xiaobo Liu. Copyright © 2012 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. | Reprinted by permission of Harvard University Press from No Enemies, No Hatred: Selected Essays and Poems by Xiaobo Liu. Copyright © 2012 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. |