Lest we forget: talking is not enough, need to listen

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In a contemporary time always moving, dominated by the word and the image, Today it is important to stop and listen to the echoes of history. We want to do with the poem written by Primo Levi, He opens his book “If this is a man”. And’ the story of a man locked up in concentration camps, who fought for survival. And’ the same story of millions of men, women and children.

You who live safe
In your warm homes
You who found coming night
Hot food and friendly faces:
Consider if this is a man,
Working in the mud
That knows no peace
Struggling through bread
Dying for a Yes or a no.
Consider if this is a woman,
Without hair and without name
No more strength to remember
Empty eyes and cold the womb
Like a frog in winter.
Meditate that this was:
I command these words.

Carve them in your heart
Standing in the House going to away,
Coricandovi rise:
Repeat them to your children.
Or face the House,
The illness prevent you from,
Your born children turn your face from you.

Roberto Rossetti

 

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