When will we be angry enough?

Catalin_Ionut_Moldoveanu Poems

When they k i l l our dogs Or when they nuke Tehran, When they take your taxes Then deport your mom When they eat 500 more children And bomb 5 more million people When they took it all And left you powerless And made you a slave Who can’t even process The thought to make a stand Because you’d lose it all And it’ll be too late To fight for their downfall When should we get angry enough And act on it if although if it’s rough So be it, so is genocide So is splitting families because their skin is dark And so is telling us we’re important then Ignoring all our needs like a bad parent Isn’t anger the right answer here? We’ve been indoctrinated to shame it and to fear Isn’t uniting and fighting for a common good the thing That we should all be aiming for or do we wait until It’s too late? Or until all genocidal states Have the power they’ve been craving? Cause our “doesn’t affect me”’s Let them k i l l while they’re confessing Didn’t really stop them, did it And now we’re surprised we’re in danger Cause we lost ignorance’s wager And yes we were conditioned to this But we can now choose to resist It’s not your fault for not knowing But now you do, what you do with it Is up to you from now on so Will you fight to defend love Or will you watch until the war Reaches you to finally say “I didn’t think it’d get to me”