If this is a man
IF THIS IS A MAN '
You who live safe In your warm houses, You who find, returning
the evening, Hot food and friendly faces: Consider if this
is a man Who works in the mud
Who knows no peace Who fights for a
bread Who dies because of a yes and 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 into your heart
When at home because,
bed, rising;
Repeat them to your children, you are undone
O Home ,
illness impede you, your loved ones
twist their faces from you.
Primo Levi
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