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'Your Lifelong Prisoner' – Liu Xiaobo's poem from prison 'Your Lifelong Prisoner' – Liu Xiaobo's poem from prison
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A book of poems published in 2012 by Liu Xiaobo, the Chinese dissident released from prison on Monday, contained a moving tribute to his wife, the poet Liu Xia
Liu Xiaobo
Mon 26 Jun 2017 10.22 BST
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To XiaTo 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 bloodI'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 estrogeninspired 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 dropI 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 nightday 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 bodyInside 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 soulI 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 serenityI'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 muchA 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 wellMaybe 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 impenetrableThe 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.
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