for the great people! =)

Song about the good people

1

One knows the good people by the fact

That they get better

When one knows them. The good people

Invite one to improves them, for

How does anyone get wiser? By listening

And by being told something.

2

At the same time, however

They improve anybody who looks at them and anybody

They look at. It s not just because

We know that these people are alive are

Changing the world, that they are of use to us.

3

If one comes to them they are there.

They remember what they

Looked like when one last meet them.

However much they've changed -

For it is precisely they who change -

They have at most become more recognisable.

4

They are like a house which we helped to build

They do not force us to live there

Sometimes they do not let us.

We may come to them at any time in our smallest dimension,

but

What we bring with us we must select.

5

They know how to give reasons for their presents

If they find them thrown away they laugh.

But here too they are reliable, in that

Unless we rely on ourselves

They cannot be relied on.

6

When they make mistakes we laugh:

For if they lay a stone in the wrong place

We, by watching them, see

The right place.

Daily they earn our interest, even as they earn

Their daily bread.

They are interested in something

That is outside themselves.

7

The good people keep us busy

They don't seem to be able to finish anything by themselves

All their solutions still contais problems.

At dangerous moments on sinking ships

Suddenly we see their eyes full on us.

Though they do not entirely approve of us as we are

They are in agreement with us none the less.

(Bertolt Brecht; The Darkest Times, 1938-1941)