silence of breath by yoko naito

Once we all; Animals and  the Human-Beings, lived mutually on the same land.
Animals, stayed on the land and adapted. 
Whereas we; the Human-Beings, left this land to build our Civilizations. 

I could hear the breath from the Animals.
They won't say anything to us.
Just stare with their silence of breath.
Our land has been greatly changed. Which is now difficult for Animals to live on.
However, all of us once lived together in this same land.

Since when have we only cared about ourselves?  
Humans have continued talking and have neglected to listen to the sayings of others.
All of us have changed the world to indulge in our own ways .
We think there is justice to insist on our self without any doubt.
How is it that we are unquestionably right, and the world consists only for us?
What remains now is a world absent of all harmony… 

They stare at us egoists, with silence of breath.

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