Nazim Hikmet

Here you will find the Poem After Release From Prison of poet Nazim Hikmet

After Release From Prison

Awake. 
Where are you? 
At home. 
Still unaccustomed- 
awake or sleeping- 
to being in your own home. 
This is just one more of the stupefactions 
of spending thirteen years in a prison. 
Who's lying at your side? 
Not loneliness, but your wife, 
in the peaceful sleep of an angel. 
Pregnancy looks good on a woman. 
What time is it? 
Eight. 
That means you're safe until evening. 
Because it's the practice of police 
Never to raid homes in broad daylight.