6577 - Life in fear

N. Lygeros
Translated from French: Vicky Baklessi

“Everything disappears before fear.
The fear, huh Cesonia;
this beautiful feeling, without alloy,
pure and uninterested;
one of the rare
that takes its nobility from the guts.”

Life in fear
there, that is what the system desires
for all of us
in order to control the present
and make it eternal
inalterable to men
and to their revolutions.
Camus condemns it
vehemently
because he knows what it is all about
he saw this feeling
among his countrymen
at the time of war.