there is a fear
pulsating beneath the surface;
an itchiness and an unease that is tingling on the skin of the earth
do you feel it too?
once upon a time water was turned into wine and people believe someone might save them.
but there is a darkness now – a kind of rip in the fabric of society, a hole where faith in justice and democracy used to be
there is a fear
flushing the cheeks and flooding the veins
of people of different colours and ages
a fear of the ‘other’
– not like me –
when will ‘different’ cease to be ‘dangerous’ and when will this division evade us?
maybe the world has turned upside down
or maybe there is no up and no down.
there is a fear
but I sense a fight within us too;
a fight to what’s broken between me and you
people are waking up
from millennia of ignorant slumber
and perhaps now is the time for revolution and thunder
there is hope
pulsating beneath the surface;
an burning desire for change that is tingling on the skin of the earth
do you feel it too?