honest, intelligent breathing.
we’ve forgotten how to talk.
we dont even know ourselves,
much less each other…
so caught up in the mad race,
computer age shots of insulin….
when’s the last time you said anything
that lingered after you walked away?
when’s the last time you heard anything
that stopped you, made you think?
when’s the last time you took the time
to feel, to care, to risk, to bare?
dont you think now’s a good time
to start?
you take away his spirit’sability to dream!if you close his mind,you close the doorto his future!
to find a cause worthdying for….it’s just as hard,and takes just as muchcourage and commitment…to find a cause worthliving for…too many of ustake the road inbetween,and our lives are wasted!
turn to hard hungry action,feeding mouths with faces!the man whipped hardby profit’s demands,turns on the oppressor,with nothing to lose!the word justice ne’er spoken,the anger of the poor,turns men into wolves,that will be fed!the price of survival narrowed,to the sudden swift move,so long in coming…the storm without name!
i will disarm you!God
and around the world.laying dead victimsof bombing and gunfire…are our children.those white skinned,black skinned babies,born into the housing developmentsand trailer parks,into crackhead pill poppingpoverty… those,are our children too!those blood stained babies,found in desperate dumpsters,our children, again.those unborn babies,born into hopeless situations,or never to be borninto a world cold and hard…our children too!
the wings of my dreams join the birds,preparing to fly south.the fireflies of my passion,lay down the final gauntlet.i let go of my thoughts,and listen, just listen!we walk a thousand miles,to become seed and dirt.the world that was distant,now the sweat on my brow.for i am the world…change me, change the world!
