You who live safe
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In your warm houses,
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You who find, returning in the evening,
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Hot food and friendly faces:
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Consider if this is a man
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Who works in the mud
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Who does not know peace
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Who fights for a scrap of bread
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Who dies because of a yes or a no.
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Consider if this is a woman,
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Without hair and without name
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With no more strength to remember,
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Her eyes empty and her womb cold
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Like a frog in winter.
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Meditate that this came about:
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I commend these words to you.
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Carve them in your hearts
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At home, in the street,
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Going to bed, rising;
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Repeat them to your children,
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Or may your house fall apart,
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May illness impede you,
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May your children turn their faces from you.
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If This Is A Man
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| Heaven Shall Burn |
