"The Cold Within" is a 1960s poem written by James Patrick Kinney. Over the last 50 or so years, the poem has become a beacon of hope and inspiration to people that have been dealt a negative hand in the lottery of life.
Here is the audio narration of the poem for you.
Hope this poem inspires you as much as it has inspired us!
= Full Text of Poem =
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Six humans trapped by happenstance
In bleak and bitter cold.
Each one possessed a stick of wood
Or so the story’s told
Their dying fire in need of logs,
But the first man held his back.
For of the faces 'round the fire,
He noticed one was black.
The next man looking 'cross the way
Saw one not of his church.
And couldn't bring himself to give
the fire his stick of birch.
The third one sat in tattered clothes;
He gave his coat a hitch,
Why should his log be put to use?
To warm the idle rich?
The rich man just sat back
And thought of the wealth he had in store,
And how to keep what he had earned
From the lazy, shiftless poor.
And the black man's face bespoke revenge
As the fire passed from his sight.
For all he saw in his stick of wood
Was a chance to spite the white.
The last man of this fallen group did nought,
Except for gain.
Giving only to those who gave,
Was how he played the game.
Their logs held tight in death's still hands
Was proof of human sin.
They did not die from the cold without,
They died from the cold within.
= Video Production Credits =
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- Narrated by: Shivam Vashisht (Follow him on Instagram [ Ссылка ])
- Audio processing by: Nitya Grover for www.thePodium.in
- Video edited by: Saurabh Jain for www.greypixel.in
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