01/15/2024
I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain’d,
I stand and look at them long and long.
They do not sweat and whine about their condition,
They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins,
They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God,
Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things,
Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago,
Not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth.
So they show their relations to me and I accept them,
They bring me tokens of myself, they evince them plainly in their possession.
Walt Whitman
Creo que podría volverme a vivir con los animales.
¡Son tan plácidos y sufridos!
Me quedo mirándolos días y días sin cansarme.
No preguntan,
ni se quejan de su condición,
no andan despiertos por la noche,
ni lloran por sus pecados.
Y no me molestan discutiendo sus deberes para con Dios…
No hay ninguno descontento,
ni ganado por la locura de poseer las cosas.
Ninguno se arrodilla ante los otros,
ni ante los mu***os de su clase que vivieron miles de siglos
antes que él.
En toda la tierra no hay uno solo que sea desdichado o venerable.
Walt Whitman
