Census of the Living and the Dead
The sum total
of all human existence
is 108.2 billion:
100.8 billion dead.
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Subtract existence
from death
and we are the small living,
sometimes believing rest.
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War dead from
150 million to 1 billion:
in active conflicts
that kill over 1,000.
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Subtract the casualties
from existence
and those are
the grateful and ungrateful.
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Subtract the holocaust dead
and what is left
is the unimaginable grief
and regret of all the survivors.
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Subtract existence from casualties
and the remainder is weeping
mothers, fathers, daughters, sons,
wives, husbands, brothers, sisters, friends.
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The epidemic number is greater
than all war and almost equal
to existence itself:
107.6 billion disease ridden souls.
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Subtract existence from war/pestilence
and the remainder is the
healthy and the lucky to be alive,
the hobbled rest of humanity.
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Natural calamity cause less than 5%
of all known deaths,
crime and murder even less,
the rest die in peace.
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The census of mankind
leaves no one untouched,
by human wrath
or natureโs devastation.
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Subtract existence from man
and man from the hellishness
of the natural order and the
remainder can only be God.
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