Martinwguy at 23:48, 1 January 2013

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[[That's How It Goes]] is a poem by Nazim Hikmet proposed for [[Poets in Prison]].
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That's How It Goes
Nazim Hikmet [handwritten in biro]

Am in the middle of a spreading light,
my hands inspired, the world beautiful.
Cannot stop looking at trees:
they're so hopeful and so green.
A sunny pathway stretches beyond the mulberries,
I stand before the window in the prison hospital,
cannot smell the smell of medicine:
somewhere carnations must be in bloom.
That's how it goes, my friend.
The problem is not falling a captive,
it's how to avoid surrender.

(Bursa Prison, 1948)
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[[Category:Poem]]

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Martinwguy at 23:48, 1 January 2013