Nazim Hikmet - The Strangest Creature On EarthNazim Hikmet - The Strangest Creature On Earth
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You`re like a scorpion, my brother,
you live in cowardly darkness
like a scorpion.
You`re like a sparrow, my brother,
always in a sparrow`s flutter.
You`re like a clam, my brother,
closed like a clam, content,
And you`re frightening, my brother,
like the mouth of an extinct volcano.
Not one,
not five—
unfortunately, you number millions.
You`re like a sheep, my brother:
when the cloaked drover raises his stick,
you quickly join the flock
and run, almost proudly, to the slaughterhouse.
I mean you`re strangest creature on earth—
even stranger than the fish
that couldn`t see the ocean for the water.
And the oppression in this world
is thanks to you.
And if we`re hungry, tired, covered with blood,
and still being crushed like grapes for our wine,
the fault is yours—
I can hardly bring myself to say it,
but most of the fault, my dear brother, is yours.
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