A Day in the Mind

"If you think the world is just fine the way it is ....
don't bother reading this."

It’s time to awake and arise,
to enlighten the minds that structure
this mundane complacency
of merely existing . . . to come to life
with revolutionary insight
and fight the war inside
against the greedy pride of self;
wake up your neighbors and tell them . . .
it’s time to rise above
the confinement of hate,
which all of us have chained
to our children . . .
to erase the resistance of apathy
and alter this decline in mentality
that’s tearing society apart . . .
to start replacing every fear
in your heart
with the strength of faith . . .
and welcome the embrace of wisdom
to forsake the insanity
of our ways of possession and vanity;
which are merely transitory
like the illusion of time ...

We will not hide
behind closed eyes
or be pacified
by another generation of lies
that tradition can pass-on-down the line
into the minds of our children . . .
we refuse to be preoccupied
or hypnotized
by any mass medium of amusement
and we will not get in line
or ever remain silent;
We are awake and rising . . .