Awake

Who knows what we have missed

When no fingers told us to look

Or tongues told to listen

Without whip cracks and whistle calls

To wake us from our sleep, the

World has passed us by

Every second slipping past squanders

Our numbered heart beats

We aren’t invincible We will end

We need to be battered need

To be broken, and still overcome

A life worth living needs a fight

Bloody knuckles and bent noses

Show the face of a man with eyes

Who have seen

Won the right to point his own

Finger and tell with his own teeth

Look in the mirror you

Soft sightless tongueless coward

Just because your eyes are open

Doesn’t mean you’re awake