Is the voice that has been stilled,
stilled forever?
Or is the one who has died the same
as the one who is not yet born?

They say that when we dream,
everyone in our dream is us.
If we are so many people, why do others
bear grudges, often for years
against only one?

And who condemns? Is it God or mankind?

Words are nothing but marks on paper
or vibrations formed of air, yet we can
destroy another person with either.
Can you say, then, that any one of us
is not dangerous?

And the first word ever spoken---
can you doubt that it was "I"?