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Through Dark Shrouds

by Mike Berger

Seized by a despot hand,
the beacon falls mute.
Oppression rains down a
veil of silence.

Beijing, Beijing why-
why do you fear a poet's lines?
Imprisonment is futility incarnate.
Atune your deaf ears,
his voice still resonates
through your dark shroud.

Zhu Yufu

by Mike Berger

Better to join the damned,
better to rot in hell,
than silence a poet's pen.