Kit Kelen #1437 - if we don't then who will?

1437

if we don’t, who will?

if we don’t stop now, then when?

if we don’t make the difference, who?

sow and reap and reap and sow

for young and old

till cows come home

blow dust off this truth and show

if we don’t say no

the others will

we might as well

make a buck

burn this and the forest goes

and those who lived there

now where?

how can we be the change?

if we don’t stand up

all fall down

or

sell to the highest bidder

we’re not burning it, they are

and if we don’t then someone will

we’re standing in the smoke now

who voted for this?

who paid?

here’s a little map of the heart

and it goes out, so what? who cares?

if we don’t make the difference, who?

if those of us who know, don’t, won’t

if we don’t stop now, then when?

I have to be the breeze, be smoke

I have to fall as rain

catch, flow

courage of it, anger up

to do, to be

to breathe again

cast light

blow dust off this old truth and show

who will you tell it to?

who’ll listen?

search this whole wide world and see

there’s nowhere beyond

the smoke of our fires

not now

sow and reap and reap and sow

for young and old

till cows come home

Christmas came midst of it

we have this lovely lump

in parliament and full of throat

if we don’t speak up, whose voice then?

rehearse the ethics of the earthworm

and with a lizard’s skill

dream a role, a choice

dream the sun up too

let’s not insult the animals

but eat the ones we kill

blow dust off this old truth and show

not every cow comes home

if we don’t stand up

all fall down

the dumb, the willing

wet their beds

credits freshly franked

what matters?

polished turds of the market catch fire

smoke’s coming out the ears

see how the wheels and the pulleys are cranked

consider please all that the dinosaurs did

never resile

there are natural cycles

like

sow and reap and reap and sow

for young and old

till cows come home

where are the insects hid?

if we don’t make the difference, who?

if we don’t stop now, then when?

courage of it, anger

to do, to be

to breathe again

cast light

call it out

the name of the crime

and call hate what it is

call out the knowledge evil acts

be shrill

be woke

call the laughter devil’s trill

good and evil’s not gone well

tell it how it is

implore

other than heaven

and heavens above

make where a difference works

I know your thinking cap is on

that you have read so far

so use your heart and head

these givens

if we don’t then who will?