said one revolutionary to another

Said one revolutionary to another:

"I do not give you words to live by,

but rather words on which to die.

Words with which to hang yourself,

to say on the steps to the guillotine,

to write in the cell where you spend

your last days.

I do not give you words to live by,

but rather words to leave behind, for

all the world, which is already hanging,

which has already lost its head,

which has lived its entire life imprisoned."