You Took Away All the Oceans

Osip Mandelstam, who lived from 1891-1938, was sent to a Soviet concentration camp for his political views. His health broken, he died there. Three years before his death, he wrote,

You took away all the oceans and all the room.

You gave me my shoe-size with bars around it.

Where did it get you? Nowhere.

You left me my lips, and they shape words, even in silence.

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