Webster: “Woke: aware of and actively attentive to important societal facts and issues (especially issues of racial and social justice)
Angry shouts pierce the air
Wokeness is dead,a new day is here
White men rise and tell of their woes
The years of your abuse… God only knows
They say freedom will ring for whiteness again
A louder ring has never been
But those who believe such lies
Should view history and see
The ultimate truths which survive
A liberal patriot in 1776, Thomas Paine
Wrote Common Sense
And a nation asleep… became woke
Words of Freedom loudly spoke
Loyalty to the King broke
Conservatives resisted…Patriots persisted
Speaking truth to power finally existed
America began as Freedom awakened
A vision of Freedom through the land
Life Liberty and Pursuit of happiness for all
For these ideals… many would fall
Through the years a more perfect Union began
Every perfection labeled radical, liberal or worse
But pursuit of Justice
Has an unquenchable thirst
The Bill of Rights not yet realized
For over a century passed
Until so-called Liberals, Progressives and Socialists
Would prevail… From the bloody field of Gettysburg
Freedom would ring… Emancipation born
Despite anti-woke scorn
Jim Crow entered and hatred would reign
Who can forget the enormous pain?
But wokeness arose in the nation
Bearing witness to the fire-hose degradation
The Civil Rights Act was born
Despite Conservative’s scorn
Wokeness again… born
Almost a century and a half would pass
By a razor-thin margin women could vote
Another narrow victory
For the just… and the woke
Once again so-called Radicals would prevail
Further lifting our Constitution’s veil
America would collapse in a Great Depression
When fairness seemed distant… A New Deal was born
Again anti-woke scorn
Social Security’s safety net
A great and noble idea… and yet
Another woke Socialist plot… Conservatives would yell
FDR… Go To Hell!
Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts would come
Still under fire from some
Free At Last! Free At Last!
Others choose to hide the past
Tears in my eyes as Dr. King spoke
A perfect portrait of Spiritual Woke!
Vietnam,Watergate poisoned the land
My country right or wrong
With clenched fists..Conservatives took their stand
Liberals,Communists and Traitors they shouted
Heads they broke..As politicians spoke
But history spoke.. Truth carried by the Woke
WOKE WOKE WOKE… Words of angry derision
Not giving a thought to their position
Forget the words of LOVE without condition
From the Man from Galilee
And His brothers and sisters…you and me
WOKE WOKE WOKE…Words of angry derision
Parents take their stand
In what bathroom and with whom
Shall my child wash their hands!
Some choose to sleep..Mother Earth weeps
Sweating and panting she cries!
Open your eyes!
Stop with the Lies!
Diversity Equity and Inclusion be damned
Foreigners… get out of my land… hear their plea
Singing My Country Tis Of Thee
Be Christian or flee!
While worshipping a dark-skinned migrant child
From Galilee
Diversity Equity and Inclusion they scream!
Hatred Division and Exclusion their scheme
Forget… I have a Dream
Stand up Stand down they exclaim
Easy targets to bear their shame
But… History has a long memory so they say
A rude awakening is on their way
Project 2025… Will it prevail?
Nothing more than A Handmaid’s Tale
But history knows what will prevail
Wokeness will not fail
So quit sleeping my country and awaken!
For all victories come stirred and shaken
Democracy is a fragile jewel
Taken for granted by the fool
So join together our collective synergies
We Shall Overcome!
WITH OUR KINDRED ENERGIES!