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Salient. Victoria University Student Newspaper. Vol 36 No. 5. 29 March 1973

Salient Editors

Salient Editors

This is for your kind thoughts.

oh, how is it?
that out of this
one single cell
there came to be
such a world of hypocrisy.
and in this world, you and i,
we have to fight to keep alive.

so close,
but so distant.
the whole worlds
oppression
gathers in me.
i'm being torn
i'm being ravished. . .
and then i find beside me
people
they speak of such
emptiness
such loneliness
such agony.
countless days of
suffering
because they have no way
to reach
that bright horizon which
wakens them.
they cannot break the chains
that keep them
in this world of delusion.

They cannot hold they cannot grasp
that mystery that wonder
that bursting thunder
that tells them
they're alive!
they've folded.
their stories told
a thousand times.

and, the more i took
the more i see
of ignorance and
disharmony.
of despair and loneliness.
and when i try to understand
this wretched state of man,
the more
i want to live and tell
the more i curse this living hell
the more i scream
the more i weep
the more i have
to speak. . .of Revolution!!!

B.P.