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Marat/Sade

After fifty years chasing my tail

Trying to sort out what I should do

This reworking, even though it fails,

Poses the stark questions I eschew

In all my work and forced activity.

Can I make a difference? Or must I

Accept that violence and depravity

Will always out manoeuvre what I try

To undertake, serving a greater truth,

And the death of millions does not bring

Us any closer to real Peace or growth

In justice, while we obstinately cling

          To principals we'd hoped would lead us to

          A better world for all, not just the few?

Brian Hick October 2011

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