Your body or your soul –
The choice that you have made
Defending against all
Which threatens wretched state,
Which questions very thought
That something is not right.
“Defense” – what had it brought?
Why did you start the fight?
Die, rot to very bone!
See how you will defend
The body against stone,
And while you try to mend
Illusions obscene,
And sin you can’t atone,
Rots swiftly everything
That you have ever known!
No matter – you don’t rest,
Peace is unknown to you –
Since leaving mother’s breast
And starting life anew
All seem but to attack,
And God along with them –
Defense is sign of lack,
Defenseless don’t condemn.