Ever feel a rising of earth,
something beneath your feet,
something telling you,
there’s a beast down there
eating at our psychological states,
cameras – beatin’ down,
revolution in the streets,
feeling the rising of earth beneath my street,
turn around, where are the elite, do they speak,
are they listening, little warning alarms,
ding, ding, we’ve lost our ethical meat,
time for protest generation to get to their feet,
look at the world this and last week,
should a child be blown up,
lost limbs,
planes down,
children shot down in the street,
mom told on an internet
feed, are we awake,
are we all asleep,
young,
young,
young,
are all ours from Gaza,
from Montreal, a US
town, come on
aren’t you watching,
in your classes, ones
outside academic philosophy,
we are all teachers and preachers,
a teacher
doesn’t select who is
worthy to dance
to live,
to play,
to dream,
we all teach, don’t you see,
when we don’t speak,
BOOM,
SHOOT,
BEAT,
now you wonder,
will it hit home,
don’t tell me I shouldn’t care,
keep my mind out of what doesn’t affect me,
when one mom cries, one country starves,
we all weep,
shit, a son, a school blown up,
guns, poof, all of us gone,
blown up by our ugly cowardly
insides, standing by, watching our TV”S,
yes we know Williams passed on,
yes, we care too, but this is civil rights, this is the greats,
can you hear them up there talk,
stand up and take your walk,
don’t tell me, the world has lost its sleep,
insomniacs
next what,
babies in mother’s arms,
you know how it goes,
when morals are lost,
everything comes and everything goes,
I care, sorry, it bothers me,
cried to see a mom,
cried when I saw bombs
coming down over humanity,
humanity,
humanity,
humanity,
humanity,
humanity,
trying to dance in the street,
does it hit you now,
is the earth rising below your feet.
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Photograph by wikimedia creative commons by Toni Frissell
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