Now that a revolution really is needed, those who were fervent are quite cool. <br /> <br />While a country murdered and raped calls for help from the Europe which it had trusted, they yawn. <br /> <br />While statesmen choose villainy and no voice is raised to call it by name. <br /> <br />The rebellion of the young who called for a new earth was a sham, and that generation has written the verdict on itself. <br /> <br />Listening with indifference to the cries of those who perish because they are after all just barbarians killing each other. <br /> <br />And the lives of the well-fed are worth more than the lives of the starving. <br /> <br />It is revealed now that their Europe since the beginning has been a deception, for its faith and its foundation is nothingness. <br /> <br />And nothingness, as the prophets keep saying, brings forth only nothingness, and they will be led once again like cattle to slaughter. <br /> <br />Let them tremble and at the last moment comprehend that the word Sarajevo will from now on mean the destruction of their sons and the debasement of their daughters. <br /> <br />They prepare it by repeating: "We at least are safe," unaware that what will strike them ripens in themselves.<br /><br />Czeslaw Milosz<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/sarajevo-2/
