I have practiced not to move
not to sigh, hack or cough
I'm on my way in underwear
They carry me through the thirteen
doors, folded up in a chest, books
under my knees, under my head
The world needs laws
that are above parties, for years
I have been thinking across borders
about the right to freedom:
the seas and self-determination
of peoples, I sit still for hours
writing without a sigh or cough
I have practiced not to move
two hours every evening in the chest
to make a success of the plan
that my wife's love
conceived for me
Oct 27, 2025
Oct 27, 2025 at 4:39 AM UTC
I have practiced not to move
not to sigh, hack or cough
I'm on my way in underwear
They carry me through the thirteen
doors, folded up in a chest, books
under my knees, under my head
The world needs laws
that are above parties, for years
I have been thinking across borders
about the right to freedom:
the seas and self-determination
of peoples, I sit still for hours
writing without a sigh or cough
I have practiced not to move
two hours every evening in the chest
to make a success of the plan
that my wife's love
conceived for me
Hugo Grotius (1583-1645):
legal treatise "Mare Liberum" ("The Freedom of the Seas") in 1609, and escape from Loevestein Castle on March 22nd, 1621
Collection "Migration"
