When Will We Awaken?

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Our children plead for an opportunity as taxes

are raised on many of our struggling families

gas, and groceries rising just as quickly as

the many men & women are incarcerated daily

we search for a way to quantify our existence

through all forms of religion to help us understand

the reason for living in a world so false visually

yet no one can assure us of anything when

at every level, corruption and greed seep

through the fabric of our infrastructure

no, I am not my brother’s keeper

but if change doesn’t happen quick

I fear I may not have a brother to speak

We as a people are suffering from the sickness

Our societies slowly crumble beneath our feet

Yet politicians can only debate & delegate

While we the people face the storm bankers created

Who deserves to be on the chopping block?

As we wonder when the bleeding will ever stop

Can Obama give us a way to change or are we simply

Delusional to the problems we currently face

Democrats & Republicans can’t be trusted

As the country we love so much continues

Rustin, the pipes bursting, bridges crumbling

I want a society where every child can be promised

The opportunity for some form of college education

yet war is what my nation is funding for its own

selfish elevation towards more profit and greed

I ask again as I continue pondering when will

The bleeding cease or do we need a revolution

For the world to see that we can no longer

Continue this false American dream of supremacy

When the U.S.A has fallen in grade to many other

industrialized nations surpassing us in science, education,

communications, dying because of the derogation

the true question is; when will we consciously awaken?

Nick Ade The Poet © 2012

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