mah maou

I have been guilty of crimes;
O, how I have been guilty of crimes…

How I have sinned in the name of affluence
against my brothers, my cousins and the world.

Have sinned in the name of
comfort, convenience, apathy.

How I have been guilty of nepotism.
of sending men to war,
of wanton and wanton and systematic destruction.

O, how I have seen
with ambivalent eyes
the product of my nonchalance;

Have spat upon the graves of my fathers,
have tread knowingly
upon the graves of their fore-bearers.

O, how I have been guilty of crimes
against my brothers, my cousins and the world.