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Liu Xiaobo
12/28/55 – 07/13/17
They took your body
ravaged by sickness given
time to grow
unimpeded —
“Death of a thousand cancer cells” —
and burned it
tossing ashes out to sea
not in honor
but in haste to
get rid of all evidence
of your voice
and their crime
But they do not know
the current carries your ashes
around the world
touching every shore
rising on the warm air of
someone’s dream
speaking into clouds
ashes in the wind
the stuff of phoenixes
and poets
and unnamed voices
come back to haunt them
Demian Yumei
~Keeping the Dream
