[Reader-list] GLOBAL FEAR BY EDUARDO GALEANO

Asit Das asit1917 at gmail.com
Mon Aug 19 05:48:07 CDT 2013


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*GLOBAL FEAR*



Those who work are afraid

they’ll lose their jobs

Those who don’t work are afraid

they’ll never find one

Whoever doesn’t fear hunger is

afraid of eating

Democracy is afraid of remembering and

language is afraid of speaking

Civilians fear the military,

the military fears shortage of weapons

Weapons fear a shortage of wars

It is time of fear

Women’s fear of violent men and men’s fear

of fearless women

Fear of thieves, fear of the police

Fear of doors without locks,

of time without watches

Of children without television; fear of

the night without sleeping pills and day

without pills to wake up

Fear of crowds, fear of solitude

Fear what was and what could be

Fear of dying. Fear of living.


eduardo galeano


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