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Since I've been in jail	A
the world has turned around the sun ten times	B
And if you ask the earth it will say	C
'It's not worth mentioning	D
a microscopic time '	E
And if you ask me I will say	C
'It's ten years of my life '	E
I had a pencil	F
the year I came to jail	A
It wore out in a week from writing	D
And if you ask the pencil it will say	C
'A whole life '	E
And if you ask me I will say	C
'It's nothing a mere week '	E
Osman who was jailed for murder	G
completed a seven year stretch and left	H
since I've been in jail	A
He wandered around outside for a while	I
and then got jailed again for smuggling	D
He served a six month term and left again	J
and yesterday a letter came saying he's married	K
and a child will be born in the spring	D
Now they're ten years old	L
the children who fell from their mothers' womb	M
that year I came to jail	A
And the colts of that year who had long thin shaky legs	N
have long since become docile broad rumped mares	O
But the olive shoots are still shoots	P
and they're still children	Q
New squares have opened up in my distant city	R
since I've been in jail	A
And our family	R
is living in a house I've never seen	S
on a street I don't know	T
The bread was pure white like cotton	Q
the year I came to jail	A
Later it was rationed out	U
And we here on the inside beat one another	G
for a piece of black crust the size of a fist	V
Now it's free again	J
But brown and tasteless	W
The year I came to jail	A
The Second One had just begun	Q
The ovens in Dachau Camp were not yet lit	X
The atom bomb was not yet hurled upon Hiroshima	Y
Time flowed like the blood of a child with his throat cut	Z
Later that chapter was officially closed	A2
Now American dollars are talking about a Third	B2
But in spite of everything the days have brightened	C2
since I've been in jail	A
And about half of them	D2
'put their heavy hands on the pavement	E2
and on the edge of darkness	W
straightened up '	E
Since I've been in jail	A
the world has turned around the sun ten times	B
And again I repeat with the same passion	Q
what I wrote for them	D2
the year I came to jail	A
'They	F2
whose number is as great	G2
as ants on the earth	F2
fish in the water	G
birds in the sky	H2
are fearful and brave	I2
ignorant and learned	J2
and they are children	Q
And they	F2
who destroy and create	G2
it is only their adventure in these songs '	E
And for the rest	K2
for example my lying here for ten years	L2
it's nothing	D

Nazim Hikmet

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