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Awaken

This poem is a call to “awaken,” born from a deep sense of crisis toward the repetition of war, violence, and the societies that allow them to persist. It sharply questions human tendencies toward indifference, blind obedience, and susceptibility to deception, urging us not to turn away from reality but to raise our voices. Anger and resistance, it suggests, do not fade—they are the very forces that drive us to confront injustice. Rejecting naïve hopes for easy peace, the poem calls for awakening so that the mistakes of history are never repeated.

 

“Awaken”

 

Awaken.

How much suffering must there be

before you say no?

How many vile acts must you face

before you rise against them?

How many innocent lives must be offered

before you raise your fist and say no?

 

Awaken.

True anger does not cool.

True hatred does not vanish.

True resistance does not weaken.

 

Awaken.

Do not leave madness unchecked.

Do not condone brutality that scorns the law.

Do not forgive those beneath even humanity.

 

Awaken.

Do not sink into blind obedience born of powerlessness.

Do not surrender to subjugation born of poverty.

Do not be deceived by reckless acts devoid of principle.

 

Awaken.

Do not let ignorance be used as betrayal.

Do not commit violence in exchange for deception.

Do not be ruled by the air of fanaticism.

 

Awaken.

Change the mindset that watches distant fires as if they were not your own.

Prepare for the urgent worsening of the world.

Know that easy hopes for peace will not be fulfilled.

 

Awaken.

Do not turn away from repeating tragedies.

Cast off indifference so that we do not err again.

Engrave in history the grotesque nature

of those intoxicated by power.

 

Written on April 1, 2026.

 

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