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“Take a step back” by Trevor Witt

Take a step back,
From the edge,
Of your reality, your perception,
Of your seat, the cliff,
So that you can see,
The vastness of the sea,
And the canyons, the spaces between the hills,
And the peaks and valleys of your moods.

“I have laid out a plan (full of change)” by Trevor Witt

I have laid out a plan,
Strategized and devised,
Courses of action and contingencies,
I’ve ran with half-baked ideas,
Refusing to let them leaven,
And so I do not rise,
But no matter what level of planning,
It all starts with planting,
A single seed of action,

To sprout

A glorious dream,
Full of hope and doubt,
Beautiful and strange,
And full of change.

“The future is abundant (unbounded)” by Trevor Witt

The future is abundant,
A series of uncertainties,
Probabilities which we might try to evaluate, approximately,
To estimate our fortunes – or our losses,
But the sheer absurdity of our ignorance
Is rooted in the enormous cliffs of our imagination,
We cannot even define our own minds.
How can we hope?
To understand?
Reality?

The future is unbounded.

“Brother, I need your help (freedom)” by Trevor Witt

Brother, I need your help,
They won’t let me eat here,
And I can’t use their roads,
Because they are so full of fear.

Stuck in a city full of bigots,
I wish I could turn off hatred’s spigot.
Sometimes I think I should give up,
I’ll go to another water fountain to fill my cup.

But, if I run now, I’ll be running my whole life.
And that shame and anger hurt worse than a knife.

They tell me to accept the status quo,
Saying it will change one day, you know.

But I won’t wait my whole life to be free.
I will stage a sit-in and I will take a knee.

Please stand with us as we take a stand,
Let’s sing “Let freedom ring” and hold each other’s hands.

Our love can light the path,
Every one matters, you do the math.

Stand with us as we take a stand,
Let freedom ring in each and every land.