Friday, June 24, 2011

Survive by Jacques Roche




Please consider buying CD's of Jacques Roche reading his own work
here. Jacques was a fine journalist, poet and activist who was murdered in Port-au-Prince in July 2005. MD



Survive


By
Jacques Roche

You can destroy my house

Steal my money

My clothes
And my shoes

Leave me naked in the middle of winter

But you cannot kill my dream

You cannot kill hope

You can shut my mouth

Throw me in prison

Keep my friends far from me

And sully my reputation

Leave me naked in the middle of the desert

But you cannot kill my dream

You cannot kill hope

You can put out my eyes

And burst my eardrums

Cut off my arms and legs

Leave me naked in the middle of the road

But you cannot kill my dream

You cannot kill hope

You can cover me with open sores

Poke an iron into the wounds

Take pleasure in torturing me

Make me piss blood

You can shut me away without pen or paper

Treat me like a madman

Drive me mad

Humiliate me

Crush me

Give me no food or water

Make me sign my surrender

But you cannot kill my dream

You cannot kill hope

You can kill my children

Kill my wife

Kill all those I hold dear

Kill me

But you cannot kill my dream

You cannot kill hope

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