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How could you take my life When we drink from the same river? How could you hurt me When we eat at the same table? Why plot against my kinsfolk When we are born of one nature? Why deny my offspring food While yours grow obese? Why must we sleep rough While hotels sit empty? Why is your body of a different class When the carbon that makes me is identical to yours? We are from the same mould Eternally connected Our minds may be different Our bodies from one soil
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Nov 30, 2016
Nov 30, 2016 at 8:14 AM UTC
Far more in common than that which divides us
How could you take my life When we drink from the same river? How could you hurt me When we eat at the same table? Why plot against my kinsfolk When we are born of one nature? Why deny my offspring food While yours grow obese? Why must we sleep rough While hotels sit empty? Why is your body of a different class When the carbon that makes me is identical to yours? We are from the same mould Eternally connected Our minds may be different Our bodies from one soil
30th November 2016 Dedicated to Jo ***
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Nov 30, 2016
Nov 30, 2016 at 8:14 AM UTC
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