Live as if you'd never talked to yourself Kept yourself at arm's length We have been given no assurance As concerns our future fate We know how to handle misfortune We know how to take bad news We can minimize injustice Lighten up God's absence We are repelling by blind heredity We believe in the fear of man In his own infinity A few clods of dirt and our senseless life Will break free from circumstance Important matters are reserved for us (Is it lofty rhetoric?) Truth breaks from the bottom Deep conviction