Rise Up

Do not dream your life away

do not sit at home waiting

in self-imposed purgatory

the dungeon of mundaneity

tomorrow will never come

and break the tedium of today

today must be fixed first

for tomorrow to seem worth making it to

the television like a visual rusk

all content broken down for toothless digestion

the world ticks on oblivious

you are supposed to conform

don’t,

make a difference, get up and start

today can be the first day of the rest of your life

if you choose to let it be

speak to people, you are not alone

others feel the same and are as frightened

needing some sense of benign coaxing

to make them believe it is safe to come out.

and then there are ‘the great unknowing’

the mass of those too blinkered to see it

or too selfish to care

mental drones carrying the yoke of indifference

some are perhaps already lost,

their souls harvested by the Gods of consumerism

believing they have ever had a choice

others long to believe in an alternative

but the message of uniformity is too pervasive

and they are cowed and numb

too tired to struggle, too resigned to care

but only for now

they are waiting, waiting for you to rise

then lines will be drawn

sides will be taken, and all will feel alive

some for the first time, others for the last

some will fight for freedom and justice

others are too scared of those concepts

no matter the outcome

right prevails for having, at that moment, an army to defend it

Song Of The Day ~ U2 – Unknown Caller