THESE PEOPLE, UNAWARE, ARE SAVING THE WORLD

THESE PEOPLE, UNAWARE, ARE SAVING THE WORLD, The Vampire's Wife, StuffHere is a wonderful poem by Jorge Luis Borges called The Just about the unconscious rehabilitation of the world through small, ordinary sacred acts. A lovely thing, suggested by Debbie from Milan, Italy. Love Susie. x


 

The Just

 

A man who cultivates his garden, as Voltaire wished.

He who is grateful for the existence of music.

He who takes pleasure in tracing an etymology.

Two workmen playing, in a café in the South,

a silent game of chess.

The potter, contemplating a color and a form.

The typographer who sets this page well,

though it may not please him.

A woman and a man, who read the last tercets

of a certain canto.

He who strokes a sleeping animal.

He who justifies, or wishes to, a wrong done him.

He who is grateful for the existence of a Stevenson.

He who prefers others to be right.

These people, unaware, are saving the world.


by Jorge Luis Borges