Ikke Bødlen

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Ikke Bødlen (English: not the torturer) is a poem by Halfdan Rasmussen, featured as one of the best poems on Human Rights on a 1979 book published by Amnesty International Denmark. The original poem reads:

Ikke bødlen gør mig bange.

ikke hadet og torturen,

ikke dødens riffelgange eller skyggerne på muren.

Ikke nætterne,

når smertens sidste stjerne styrter ned,

men den nådesløse verdens blinde ligegyldighed.

Ikke Bødlen would be later translated into the first verse of Roger Waters' song Each Small Candle.

 

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