FREEDOM's ORATOR
Monday 4 April 2022
ყმუილი მშვიდობისთვის Howl For Peace (ხატია შიუკაშვილი)
Wednesday 2 June 2021
Anne Sexton
“Do you like me?”
No answer.
Silence bounced, fell off his tongue
and sat between us
and clogged my throat.
It slaughtered my trust.
It tore cigarettes out of my mouth.
We exchanged blind words,
and I did not cry,
I did not beg,
but blackness filled my ears,
blackness lunged in my heart,
and something that had been good,
a sort of kindly oxygen,
turned into a gas oven.
—Anne Sexton
Monday 30 November 2020
No Enemies
Margaret Thatcher in The Crown reading ''No Enemies”, by Scottish poet Charles Mackay
No Enemies
You have no enemies, you say?
Alas! my friend, the boast is poor;
He who has mingled in the fray
Of duty, that the brave endure,
Must have made foes! If you have none,
Small is the work that you have done.
You’ve hit no traitor on the hip,
You’ve dashed no cup from perjured lip,
You’ve never turned the wrong to right,
You’ve been a coward in the fight.