"
You who live safe In your warm houses, You who find
returning in the evening, Hot food and friendly faces: Consider if this is
What a man
works in the mud Who knows no peace Who fights for
a piece of bread Who dies
a yes or a no.
Consider if this is a woman, Without hair and
unnamed
no more strength to remember, Her eyes empty and her womb cold Like a frog in winter
.
forget that this was:
Remember these words. Carve them in your heart
When at home because,
bed, rising;
Repeat them to your children. Or have you undone
Home,
illness impede you, May your children
twist their faces from you. "
You who live safe In your warm houses, You who find
returning in the evening, Hot food and friendly faces: Consider if this is
What a man
works in the mud Who knows no peace Who fights for
a piece of bread Who dies
a yes or a no.
Consider if this is a woman, Without hair and
unnamed
no more strength to remember, Her eyes empty and her womb cold Like a frog in winter
.
forget that this was:
Remember these words. Carve them in your heart
When at home because,
bed, rising;
Repeat them to your children. Or have you undone
Home,
illness impede you, May your children
twist their faces from you. "
from" If This Is a Man "
Primo Levi
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