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Speak<\/strong><\/p>\n after <\/em>Faiz<\/em><\/p>\n Speak, because your lips are free <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Rehan Qayoom<\/strong> is a poet, editor and translator educated at Birkbeck College, University of London. He has featured in numerous literary publications and performed his work at international venues. He has published 2 books of poetry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Speak after Faiz Speak, because your lips are free Speak, because you have a tongue Because your golden body belongs only to you Because you are still alive See how in the blacksmith’s shop The flame burns wild, the iron glows red; The locks open their jaws, And every chain begins to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8700"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8701,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8700\/revisions\/8701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nSpeak, because you have a tongue
\nBecause your golden body belongs only to you
\nBecause you are still alive
\nSee how in the blacksmith’s shop
\nThe flame burns wild, the iron glows red;
\nThe locks open their jaws,
\nAnd every chain begins to break.
\nSpeak, for this moment is long enough
\nBefore the death of the body and the tongue
\nSpeak, because the truth lives yet
\nSpeak, say what you have to<\/p>\n