Speak
Faiz Ahmed Faiz
Speak – your lips are free
Speak – your tongue is still yours.
This magnificent body
Is still yours
Speak – your life is still yours.
Look inside the smithy –
Leaping flames, red-hot iron.
Padlocks open wide
Their jaws.
Chains disintegrate.
Speak – there is little time
But little though it is
It is enough.
Time enough
Before the body perishes –
Before the tongue atrophies.
Speak – truth still lives.
Say what you have
To say.
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