أشعار سجين في الكاميرون

Quote: The earth had stopped turning Poem to Assala Assale Luc you beat down on my head like tropical rain no! no – like a GIANT CLUB and I staggered on my feet I HEAVYWEIGHT of a thousand battles I the titan who defies the storm and I staggered on my feet Oh! MAGISTRATE HOW CRUEL YOU ARE! a curse upon you Despair you visited me during that day and the black night, without stars without moonbeams without fireflies without future without any way to escape from the machete, like the night when my feet lost their way behind the village hut I, who surrendered there beneath the cocoa trees where the elephant rots oh God in heaven inky darkness beat down on me and you oh earth yes you oh earth you had stopped turning Oh! MAGISTRATE HOW CRUEL YOU ARE a curse upon you your voice rang out like DYNAMITE splintering stones in a hollow and my legs were transformed into cotton WHEN YOU GAVE VOICE TO YOUR WORLD-ENDING WORDS and the earth had stopped turning Oh! MAGISTRATE HOW CRUEL YOU ARE! a curse upon you Translated by Grace Hetherington