Proclamation

Proclamation

I'm going to take a shower and then, this day is mine. 

It may be 2 pm and yes, maybe I only woke up and hour ago, but that's fine. 

Time is of no essence, holding no power over me and my kind. 

See,  we hold the power to counter act fascist politics 

While the media scours to keep one step ahead of the times

But keeps slipping further and further behind.

I may not know everything there is to know about the GOP nominees but

Believe you me, I'm doing better than 90% of the pop culture fiends 

Who know everything there is to know about every song Lady Gaga sings. 

That's not to bash all the little monsters, see I know a bit myself 

As I like to stay abreast on all kinds of music, television,

Internet memes, university official hooker stings,

And a plethora topics categorized under the moniker "various other things".

Between you and me, I'm not sure there is a Heaven

And if there is a Hell we make it daily ourselves.

But that doesn't have to be the case.

We can rise up and grab onto the clouds, pull down the sky 

And bring the idea of Heaven a little closer than simply reading a book 

Found in the drawer at damn near every hotel ever could.

Now, that’s not to say I don’t believe in the Word

and that the word isn’t Good.

I’m only making a case for a proactive age and for doing and living the way that we should. 

We were never called to preach to the sinners that they‘re going to hell in the first place. 

I’m only stating that there is a mass information bank 

Being lawlessly and shamelessly misinterpreted and misunderstood.  

What I am saying is we need to put a stop to injustice parading itself as truth—

In our schools, in the church, and in the hearts of our youth.  

Read with fervor and a bit of passion any book can hold the keys to a life worth living. 

The Good Book is a good book, but… 

God the father and his son Jesus would have got on well 

With Bilbo Baggins and his nephew Frodo, 

Who both understood that the war they fought was so much bigger than a silly ring. '

They would have seen the passion and pain behind the eyes of Wilber Larch and is protégé Homer Wells, Who only wanted to help and had to make some tough decisions in order to do so.

And they would have been able to appreciate the selfless devotion of Severus Snape 

And commend Harry Potter on his willingness to die for those he loved. 

Because...

In the end—what’s the difference? 

It’s the same story over and over 

From the cradle to the grave, 

From Genesis to Revelation

To my walls lined with posters—

They all contribute to the loops and the corkscrews

On the same roller coaster. 

This whole charade called existence resting on the shoulders of nothingness is everything that we have,

So the quicker we learn to take the good with the bad the quicker we’ll realize that the things that we want Are exactly the same as the things that we had and the things that we have. 

Maybe all the moms and the dads of today are displeased with the direction we’re heading because

(though they’d never admit it) 

It’s no different than where they were going and for some reason they thought it would be.
Open your eyes. 

All I’m asking is for a little time. 

A minute or so more, tops.   

I’m pulling out all the stops 

And I’m laying my heart on the line in hopes that one day you will return the favor in kind. 

Not to me. Maybe not even to anyone other than yourself, but that is enough.

I've seen some things I wish I hadn't. 

I've been drunk and I’ve done drugs but I’ve never voted in a political election.  

I’m 20 years old without a clue of what it means to be a good person 

But I refuse to let that stop me from being one.  

So I’m not going to get high tonight and I’m not going to sit around by myself in my room watching porn, Which I’ll admit without shame I do sometimes when I’m bored. 

Tonight I’m breaking the illusion and crossing the line 

That separates me from who I want to be and who I was at one time.

I’m inviting you along, so come on, put away words like “was” and  “will be” 

And replace them with “the present”, “living”, and “free”.  

Because that is all there ever was or will be— 

We've been given the present for living and in that we’re free.