11 April 2003

At war
Xanana Gusm�o

I am at war
the sky is not mine
I am at war
the sea is not mine,
I am at war
and life is won only
in death?
In the hope of regaining
my sea

The poet is the president of the Democratic Republic of East Timor and commanded the guerilla resistance to the Indonesian occupation between 1975 and 1999.

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