Why is conscience desperately deaf
When the world lies in total ruin?
It hears no sorrowful words of woe
And finds no villains guilty before it...
Why is conscience blind to suffering,
When the coffin is lowered into the grave?
It does not see a mother shedding tears
Because a tormentor has killed her son...
Why is conscience silent on Justice,
Not raising its voice against sin and deceit?
An unseen razor has cut its tongue,
And it will not utter a sound or a cry...
Why is conscience burnt out by spirit
And hides the stains on its white garment?
Does it not understand that this is doom
Before the One who chose to disregard?
Why is conscience a sentence that reminds
Everyone of the Sacred Times,
When they will see the deeds laid bare,
The ones they committed without Judgment on this earth?
Why, you ask? Because it makes peace with evil,
And it lulls it to sleep, gnawing away at it!
In this terrible time, for a harsh fate,
It has already paid the devil's price...
Stefan Glavchev
(The Rise of the Fall)
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