A rallying cry and call to action to wake up to rampant gender violence
WAKE UP!
Families swept it under the rug; said they didn’t know
but they did know what uncle BoBo did
Guilty priests were promoted / or moved to places
where they again and again despoiled
innocent children stunned into
silence
shame
self-blame
While you sleepwalk
our hearts bleed,
our bodies trapped,
and
our lips quiver with chants of …
See me
Hear me
Believe me
There is STILL a pandemic in the land
it oozes through cracks
like a smelly mold in the basement of our culture
crawling up the walls, and
bursting through the baseboards of our denial
Viral #Me too. was NOT ENOUGH!
It came and it went and was good for Hollywood a few
While we damaged soldiers march in a parade of raped souls
to the drumbeat of our beggary song —
WAKE UP, comrades.
For the love of God,
WAKE the FUCK UP!