{"id":82983,"date":"2021-10-13T13:18:19","date_gmt":"2021-10-13T23:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thomas-osborne.com\/music\/?post_type=portfolio&p=82983"},"modified":"2023-01-05T11:27:20","modified_gmt":"2023-01-05T21:27:20","slug":"no-road-back-home","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/thomas-osborne.com\/music\/works\/no-road-back-home\/","title":{"rendered":"No Road Back Home"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The poem was written by Abduqadir Jalalidin, a well-known Uyghur writer who has been held in captivity in one of China\u2019s internment camps since at least 2018. The poem itself was written during his imprisonment and was likely transmitted from inmate to inmate, each having memorized the verses, until it reached the outside world. It eventually made its way to Jalalidin\u2019s former student, historian Joshua L. Freeman, who has translated the poem\u2019s themes of isolation and despair into English. It\u2019s this translation that I\u2019ve set here, and in turn I\u2019ve sought to translate those same themes into music.<\/p>\n

No Road Back Home<\/em> is dedicated to the poem\u2019s author, Abduqadir Jalalidin, and to all those who remain unjustly and inhumanely imprisoned in Xinjiang, with the hope that all will be freed one day soon.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text uncode_shortcode_id=”748589″]No Road Back Home
\n<\/strong>by Abduqadir Jalalidin
\nTranslated by Joshua L. Freeman<\/p>\n

In this forgotten place I have no lover\u2019s touch
\nEach night brings darker dreams, I have no amulet
\nMy life is all I ask, I have no other thirst
\nThese silent thoughts torment, I have no way to hope<\/p>\n

Who I once was, what I\u2019ve become, I cannot know
\nWho could I tell my heart\u2019s desires, I cannot say
\nMy love, the temper of the fates I cannot guess
\nI long to go to you, I have no strength to move<\/p>\n

Through cracks and crevices I\u2019ve watched the seasons change
\nFor news of you I\u2019ve looked in vain to buds and flowers
\nTo the marrow of my bones I\u2019ve ached to be with you
\nWhat road led here, why do I have no road back home[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text uncode_shortcode_id=”822980″]<\/p>\n

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