Friday, 15 August 2025

Wake the world

 


You can’t wake up the world

with sirens and alarms,

nor hug the earth

with nuclear arms.

You can’t dissolve hate

in a bucket of loathing.

There is no future

if the past means nothing.

is it woke to want good

instead of being asleep at the wheel

unable to navigate the flood. 

 

You can’t teach today

if you forget

the lessons of yesterday,

and you can’t regret

the way the days end,

If all you did was lay 

neglecting to see the light 

watching the sun fade, 

only waiting for the night.

 

To grow

we start off small.

To rise

we sometimes have to fall.

Building a wall

sometimes keeps the monsters in.

Rather than protecting

it makes us weak.

If we have thick skin

we sometimes lose all feeling,

it’s better to feel the tears tickling

than to let them drown us

slowly from within.

 

If we knew back then

what we know now,

would we have a clue

how to fix this before it eclipses

all the good. 

Or would we just be 

cycling around

the same circuit in time,

not changing gears,

nor taking any detours.

for fear of being lost in

 the mocking applause

of a slow clap. 

 

If the sun light burns our skin 

then does the moonlight

give us a glow within? Is it showing?

Do you see the light

and know that it’s there

to help you see in the darkest nights.

Or do you just close your eyes and hope

that everything will be alright?

 

 




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