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Consciousness

Do you keep track of anyone's funeral procession or heartbreak?
Or do you not enter the house with such matters? Are these things just for the doorstep?

Tell me, why don't we come to our senses before people die?
Why does no one speak of their anguish while they're alive?

After death, why all that weeping and wailing for the same person
whose very name we couldn't bear while they were living?

What kind of world are you all creating?
Won't this ultimately harm you too?

Perhaps it will, and by the time you understand, life itself will have stopped!
This is how it's always been, and this is how it will remain!

Match my words against reality,
and only then give your applause, if you please?
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