Wednesday, January 6, 2016

Isle Exile, for Oscar Lopez Rivera

Isle Exile

(for Oscar Lopez Rivera, on your 73rd Birthday)

Free in captivity

Your voice cannot be silenced, Oscar
You’ve taught us, what it is to be free

Your voice, amplified by our outcries
your voice cannot be silenced

Not by your so called jailers
Barbed wire or prison walls

Your voice is the voice of the people
you gather a tribe in your exile

The long years
force tyranny to swallow its own irony

The hypocrisy
of a so called democracy

Your voice cannot be silenced, Oscar
You’ve taught us, what it is to be free

Your voice is the voice of the people
you gather a tribe in your exile

Dear President
Release him

The time has come for you to leave  
Isle exile, Robben Island, Sado Island, Terre Haute

Ya es tiempo
Come home


To your true isla

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