Sunday, February 14, 2021

Prisoner of Politics (Alexi Navalny)

 RANDOM JACK POETRY HOUR: WORLD DEMOCRACY


Prisoner of Politics (Alexi Navalny)

 

Charged tried and convicted

Of daring to survive assassination

Charged tried and convicted

Of returning home to speak out

Charged tried and convicted

Of leading a movement for change

 

Suppression of dissent is not new

In Moscow or across the globe

What is new is the rising

Moscow Vladivostok and St. Petersburg

The rising of the people in protest

The rising in freezing weather

The rising against all odds

The rising against brutality

The rising against the lie

 

They cry out in unison: Let him go!

We cry out in return: Let him go!

 

The dictator should know better

You can imprison a man

But you cannot imprison an idea

You cannot lock away

The desire for freedom and truth

Self-expression and self-government

You cannot imprison a nation

 

You can poison a man

But you cannot kill a cause

Born in the heart of humanity

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