The Time Is Now!

Where were you when people marched

For rights, for justice, for science, for peace?

Our growing apathy or insouciance

Will only make the tensions increase.

 

What were you doing when in the distance

Dark clouds were taking form?

Couldn't you see the flashes and hear

The thunder from the approaching storm?

 

Had you somehow forgotten the great

Importance of reading between the lines?

Had you divested yourself from the need

To pay attention to warning signs?

 

When ideology becomes

More important than people, we're doomed.

To what degree depends on how much

Propaganda is consumed.

 

When cancer cells invade the body,

If we hope to stay alive,

We must make the body a place

Where the invader cannot thrive.

 

Shame on us if we don't act.

Shame on us if we allow

Democracy to crumble around us.

Mobilize! The time is now!

 

-by Bob B (6-11-18)

Reviews

[Davidgeo]

Well written, good rhyme scheme and a topic that always makes one think about things critically.

There isn't a shortage of mobilized dissent, we are living in an outrage culture now more than ever. But it's kind of hollow and fashionably orientated on superficial social justice crap right now.

As America isn't a real democracy (representative republic) the absolute will of the people is never truly going to be the primary driver behind governing. Which is sometimes a bad thing but not always as the mob isn't always going to know what's best for itself. But there is something very, very wrong with our government right now regardless of that. The interest's have reverted back to the super wealthy as fiscal policies are concentrating wealth at the top at an unprecedented rate.... the top 1% controls about 30% of all taxable wealth. A growing trend since the end of the 1970's that will only continue if things stay as they are. Even after the latest crash it was the taxpayers below them that had to foot the bill for that massive mortgage bubble collapse; the government clearly does not truly care about everyday people. If we want to see change we need to take private money out of political races, make them exclusively funded by public money, set term limits on the congress and senate and give every candidate running for a specific office the same budget to campaign on. I think voting with one's checkbook is a what's causing policies to be so dangerously out of whack with the core interest's of the majority... which I would argue is directly corelated to the huge income inequality we are seeing.