[ THE BURIAL AT THEBES S E N T E N C E M E M E ]
( SEAMUS HEANEY. )
“What’s to become of us?”
“Why are we always the ones?”
“There is nothing, sister. Nothing.”
“Hurt and humiliation — But this, I can not take.”
“I mean — Have you not heard?”
“The walls in there have ears.”
“This is for your ears only.”
“What is it? You have me scared.”
“Whoever isn’t for us, is against us.”
“You are just a body; to be dumped, disposed of like a carcass, left out for the birds to feed on.”
“If things have gone so far, what is there I can do?”
“We are weak where they are strong. Whether this or worse, we must do as we are told.”
“The dead will have to forgive me.”
“Anything else is madness.”
“From now on and no matter how your mind may I change, I will not accept your help.”
“If death comes, so be it. There will be glory in it.”
“I will go with my held high. The Gods will be proud of me.”
“The land of the living is neither here or there. We enter it and we leave it.”
“Live, then; and live with your choice.”
“Your cover-ups sicken me. I have nothing to hide from the powers that see it all.”
“I am doing what has to be done.”
“What are you? Hot-headed or cold-blooded?”
“You are mad, you don’t have a chance.”
“Nothing is going to stop the ones that love you from keeping on loving you.”
“Glory be to brightness, to the gleaming sun.”
“I am next in line. The throne has come to me.”
“Worst is the man who has all the good advice, and then because his nerve fails, fails to act in accordance with it, as a leader should.”
“Who would choose to be dead?”
“Never underestimate the lure of money.”
“Only a loony would walk himself into this.”
“Get there, get it out and get it over with.”
“I didn’t do the thing, I didn’t see who did it, and so, in fairness, I shouldn’t be blamed for it.”
“Why do you need such fences and defenses?”
“What are you saying? What man would dare do this?”
“I am the one that’s never welcome; the bearer of the bad news.”
“Enough. Do not anger me.”
“The gods, you think, will side with the likes of him?”
“Money has a long & sinister reach. It slips into the system, changes hands and starts to eat away at the foundations of everything we stand for.”
“Watch it. You are over stepping.”
“Can I say a word or am I just dismissed?”
“I warn you. You should keep a civil tongue.”
“What’s happening here is that the judge has misjudged everything.”
“There is no such thing as an oath the can not be broken.”
“Circumstances change, and so your mind changes.”
“Every now and then, the things you’d hardly let yourself imagine, actually happen.”
“Let me go. My job is done.”
“And you stand over this? This is the truth?”
“I did now. How could I not? Didn’t everybody?”
“And still you dared to disobey me?”
“I disobeyed because the law was not just.”
“The bigger the resistance, the bigger the collapse.”
“Iron that’s forged the hardest, snaps the quickest.”
“Even the wildest horses come to heel when they are reined & bitted right.”
“That’s how guilt affects some people. They break and everything comes out.”
“Will it be enough for you? To see me executed?”
“So you know something no one else knows?”
“They know it too. They are just too afraid to say it.”
“I won’t allow this, Justice won’t allow it.”
“If you die, how will I keep on living?”
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