My Poem of the Week: 'The World' by Gil Scott-Heron

[narya_flame]

The World

The world!
Planet Earth; third from the Sun of a gun, 360 degrees.
And as new worlds emerge
stay alert. Stay aware.
Watch the Eagle! Watch the Bear!
Earthquaking, foundation shaking,
bias breaking, new day making change.
Accumulating, liberating, educating, stimulating change!
Tomorrow was born yesterday.
From inside the rib or people cage
the era of our first blood stage was blotted or erased
or TV screened or defaced.
Remember there's a revolution going on in the world.
One blood of the early morning
revolves to the one idea of our tomorrow.
Homeboy, hold on!
Now more than ever all the family must come together.
Ideas of freedom and harmony, great civilizations
yesterday brought today will bring tomorrow.
We must be about
earthquaking, liberating, investigating
and new day making change in
the world.


(Collected in Now and Then: The Poems of Gil Scott-Heron.  More about the poet in his Guardian obituary here.)

Comments

[perhin_madoc_gamgins]

That poem speaks so perfectly, especially for our current times.

[narya_flame]

I thought so. It certainly spoke to me this week <3