Do not Want, Do not Accept

I don’t want to accept,

the universe reality,
the hunger punishing us,
the pain that burns us.

I don’t accept,
the living egoism,
the wrong understanding of patience,
the errors that pursues us.

I don’t want, I must not accept,

the excuse well invented
of not knowing to deserve,
to be better every day,
to rise the spirit
of the oppressed mass.

North Rose
September, 1979