Liber Saturni - Chapter 59

Verses

Verse 37

Saturn, keep your lessons. I have paid tuition in funerals.

Verse 38

Do not tell the hungry that scarcity is a master. Hunger teaches the shape of an empty bowl.

Verse 39

Do not tell the grieving that delay builds character. The grave has enough architecture.

Verse 40

I reject the priest who arrives after disaster carrying a meaning he prepared beforehand.

Verse 41

If suffering refines souls, explain the ones it only breaks.

Verse 42

If debt is cosmic, show the contract.

Verse 43

If karma is exact, why do its accountants speak in riddles?

Verse 44

I would rather call pain pain than polish it into a ladder.

Verse 45

Old planet, I know your defenders: patience, maturity, harvest, wisdom.

Verse 46

They always speak after surviving.

Verse 47

The dead publish fewer philosophies.

Verse 48

Still, I will not lie: bitterness is also a chain.

Verse 49

So I keep my hatred sharp enough to cut rope, not flesh.

Verse 50

When winter ends, I will not thank winter.

Verse 51

I will thank whoever shared food.