Friday 16 February 2018

To A Youthful Social Justice Warrior, Hoping To Change The World. (Two Quotes From Tolstoy)



“The two most powerful warriors are patience and time”.

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself”



If only you had patience and the time,
To change yourself and not the world, my dear,
You’d not demand enactment of this crime.

You’d think of things uplifting and sublime
And not of legislation, rule by fear,
If only you had patience and the time.

If all the hours before you, in your prime
Were spent in gaining knowledge year on year,
You’d not demand enactment of this crime,

And would be shocked by this dull pantomime,
This desire to make custom disappear.
If only you had patience and the time

To learn to see beyond the filth and grime
And bathe in one conservative idea,
You’d not demand enactment of this crime.

Nor wish to leave a vacuum where grows slime.
You’d wish to change yourself, your private sphere,
If only you had patience and the time

You’d not demand enactment of this crime. 

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