WOKE?

Feeling awakened?

Or perhaps in a daze?

For sometimes we bend

time, + reality pays.

—But, if you’re really alive,

If you’re really awake,

If you really can see,

Then say what you seek,

like all Humans do—

When Life’s Afters Arrive,

What did you hope?

What did you fantasize?

In the rooms you remember,

rewinding

rhythmns

recollect

what we’re missing—

but really

it’s — r i s K i n g —

in this tapestry of Time—

—But it’s really Our crime,

For it’s their Game that we’re playing

where the pawns are for slaying.

It’s only a Game,

No winners,

just losers—

+ only one left to blame.

You’re a pawn in a Game

called

Clutch the KingDumb

+ it only costs Freedom.

It relies on your deafness,

on your blindness it thrives,

it’s alive through your death

+ the cause?

—loss of breath,

requiring reliance

+ ultimately silence

+ “put down your defiance.”

“That’s violence.”

“Now be a good pawn,

+ protect this alliance.

Defend this illusion

in our war of confusion.”

—only pawns—

to call upon.

So, if you’re feeling awakened,

If you’re really alive,

If you release your resistance,

If you release all the lies,

It’s Our thread of exIStence,

that is really the prize.

Connections we create,

Dreams not forced to wait

+ Hopes never “too late”

+ Freedoms that allow

an intimacy of the Now.

It is NOW that we Know

For it is NOW that we See

So, it is NOW that we Speak

For, it is NOW that we Love

Thereof, we NOW, DO

For it is NOW that we Feel,

Because it is Now that We Are.

of Bone to Dust, + of Soul to Star.

Born of nudity,

+ seeking Our unity,

We Desire the Darkness

+ Delight in the Light.

You must live, so you know,

if you go,

you’ll ___ _____ _______.