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 

 rhythms

 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 King-Dumb,

{"It's only a Game."}

+ it only costs Freedom.

{"No Winners--, 

+ it only costs... 

--just Losers

...Freedom."}

It relies on your deafness,

+ on your blindness, it thrives.

It’s alive through your death;

+ the cause? 

{"No Winners,  

just Losers"}

+ the cause? 

—loss of breath,—

requiring reliance 

+ ultimately

{"your silence."}

—your 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.

It's the  -- connections -- we create,

in dreams -- not dared -- await,

 of Hopes -- never hung -- on “too late.”

In Liberations 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 in nudity, 

+ seeking Our Unity.

We Desire the Darkness, 

+ We Delight in the Light.

{"of Bone"}

You -- must -- live, 

{"to Dust"}

so you know

{" + of Soul to Star"}

if you go,

you’ll Die Happy Tonight.