Chapter 28: Empathy

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You, who speak, shout, threaten,

Oh, how many gems of coal you pour

From your mouths upon us,

Hypocritical gentlemen of nervousness,

Blind and dangerous judges of nothingness.

You enjoy yourselves, don't you? You feel like masters,

Right, slaves of time and vice?

It will all come back to you, and not

In sound, no, that is your medium,

No, it will be an invisible revenge,

For it will be in silence

That I will leave the result of your actions,

There will sprout your mud

Which with joy I will shake off.

You, who should know best of all...

But what am I saying, when have you ever deigned

To understand? When to listen?

And here you are, in the rare quiet of home,

You utter the most alien word ever,

A note that is out of tune in a cruel melody

Because of its sweetness, its truth.

"Empathy," the missing gift not to me,

As you convince yourselves, but to you.

You have always looked, judged,

Never understood. But I will not call you stupid

For that, oh, no, for it will be in the silence

That the boomerang will strike in your teeth,

Following a strange law of reciprocation

That with joy I will stick on you

"until death do you part."