A Call To Action

from "The Waking" by Theodore Roethke: "I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow I feel my fate in what I cannot fear. I learn by going where I have to go." Queasy anxiety, a fearful edginess of dread, an old and omnipresent sense of doom taint the times that random opportunity affords to slip convention's chains, to openly proclaim a saner point of view, a logical rejection of muddy, inane thinking, of tradition-bound adherence to stupidity's insistent songs that perpetuate a myriad of wrongs. Let there be no turning back; face the fears, be the change -- for diversity, humanity, acceptance, brotherhood, and love. Explain, support, convince. Break the silence: come out, come out, whoever and wherever you may be!