<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=350936" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To Those Born After</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To the cities I came in a time of disorder <br>That was ruled by hunger. <br>I sheltered with the people in a time of uproar <br>And then I joined in their rebellion. <br>That's how I passed my time that was given to me on this Earth. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I ate my dinners between the battles, <br>I lay down to sleep among the murderers, <br>I didn't care for much for love <br>And for nature's beauties I had little patience. <br>That's how I passed my time that was given to me on this Earth. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The city streets all led to foul swamps in my time, <br>My speech betrayed me to the butchers. <br>I could do only little <br>But without me those that ruled could not sleep so easily:<br>That's what I hoped. <br>That's how I passed my time that was given to me on this Earth. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Our forces were slight and small, <br>Our goal lay in the far distance <br>Clearly in our sights, <br>If for me myself beyond my reaching. <br>That's how I passed my time that was given to me on this Earth. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">II</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You who will come to the surface <br>From the flood that's overwhelmed us and drowned us all <br>Must think, when you speak of our weakness in times of darkness <br>That you've not had to face:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Days when we were used to changing countries <br>More often than shoes, <br>Through the war of the classes despairing <br>That there was only injustice and no outrage.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Even so we realised <br>Hatred of oppression still distorts the features, <br>Anger at injustice still makes voices raised and ugly. <br>Oh we, who wished to lay for the foundations for peace and friendliness, <br>Could never be friendly ourselves.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And in the future when no longer <br>Do human beings still treat themselves as animals, <br>Look back on us with indulgence.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Bertolt+Brecht">Bertolt Brecht</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=350936" data-title="To Those Born After de Bertolt Brecht" data-description="I To the cities I came in a time of disorder That was ruled by hunger. I sheltered with the people in a time of uproar And then I joined in their rebellion. That's how I passed my time that was given to me on this Earth. I ate my dinners be..."></div> </div> </div>

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