Thursday, 29 May 2025

ACTIVATE!

“Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.” – Ovid


The New What’s Going On Blog has given the challenge this week of writing about making a statement about asserting one’s rights, fighting for freedom, raising one’s voice and become active in bringing about change in a world that is unfair, unjust and steeped in inequality. It is a message of becoming united with fellow sufferers and making wrong things right. Here is my offering:


Activate


Get up, and mobilise, 

It’s time to verbalise

And voice your discontent!


We live in times that stress us

Have leaders that distress us,

And lifestyles that aggress us,

Depress, and downright regress us!


Get up, and mobilise, 

It’s time to verbalise

And voice your discontent!

Your silence means consent,

So, talk! Talk loud, talk clear

This is no time for fear!


Our time has come to shine,

Our strategy streamline,

To organise, combine,

Draw on the sand our line.


Get up, and organise, 

It’s time to verbalise

And voice your discontent!

Your silence means consent,

So, talk! Talk loud, talk clear

This is no time for fear!


Get up, and march together, 

In any place or weather,

It’s time to change for better,

To free and to unfetter.


And seeing that it was a song that was given as an example to be inspired by, I set the above poem to music and you can listen to it in my “Otidorchestre” channel on YouTube, Spotify, Amazon, Deezer, Flo, Pandora, and other music sharing sites.

6 comments:

  1. Just excellent!! I went to your YouTube and listened to it. You are so very talented. Is that you singing? Impressive!! And such true words.

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  2. Amazing poem and song! I did listen to it on YouTube. You are a creative writer and talented musician. I have been following your travel blog for a while and I was surprised when this came up on my reading list. Bravo....let the music play and yes hope often needs a helping hand....

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  3. This anthem is very inspiring. It could be sung while marching. Instagram wont let me in to hear it put to music but it definitely lends itself to being sung!

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  4. Wow, I heard it on youtube and it is REALLY impressive. You are so talented. Love the beat, it is such an upbeat and energizing song. Wonderful !

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  5. "Your silence means consent,
    So, talk! Talk loud, talk clear" I like these lines best. And I just listened to your brilliant song! it brings the words to life. Bravo! (I wish I could set mine to music!)

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  6. Stirring stuff,both the poem and the music. Chapeau !

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