To know reality, I must feel it
To know depravity, I must drown in it
To know flesh, I must touch it
To know grief, we meet. 

To know humility, I must bow to it
To know fear, I must be it
To know sorrow, I must be lost in it
To know violence, we embrace. 

To know weakness, I am broken
To know loneliness, I am born
To know futility, I am faithless
To know freedom, I submit.  

To know a language, I speak it
To know falsehoods, I lie
To know truth, I am silent
To love, I forgive.

23rd January 2020, Somerset, England.