January: Year-day 4

        
                                             
                                         
January: Year-day 4
                                               
You who are bloated with comforts, are held
creatures, whose habits so inflame your sense
you cannot cure yourselves; who have dwelled
and shall continue to dwell in the dense
enclosures you have fashioned, overgrown
and sickly; who, convinced it is all right
to trample other beings just to own,
have made the sun a darkness bringing night:
                                                          
listen, understand: There've been times, are times,
and will be times, and there've been hearts, are hearts,
and will be hearts within those times your hate
not only will not overcome, your crimes
not only not destroy, but which will chart
acts in those times/ your greed perceives too late.
                                                       
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