LoRo’s *Signature* POEM : “REVOLUTION!” (Happy Black History month…Life!)
Rochelle ‘RochelleLoRo’ Logan-Rodgers ©18.02.2010
Performed @:
“Prisoner To The Streets Book Launch | Hackeny Empire | June 2013
Underground Royalty | COTTONS | 2012
LIVE | COTTONS |2012
“Culturefest” | Brighton | March 2010
“Trust” | Hackeny Empire | Sep 2011
“LIVE-Black History Special” | COTTONS | Oct 2011
Published on: http://robertlevyfoundation.org/
Be inspired! Remember even if we start of small, like making simple choices in every area of our life, we can set in motion a momentous chain reaction.
REVOLUTION!
Revolution of the mind
Revolution of the body
Revolution of the Soul
It’s in our control
I’ve come to the conclusion
That we live in an illusion
What we recognize to be true, is not
What needs to be remembered, is forgotten
Plugged into a matrix of lies and deceit
Programmed to know and accept defeat
Feeding from leftovers to survive and eat
Dumbed down and desensitized to take the back seat
Please take your backside and stand up
Please open your eyes wide and wake up
It’s my conclusion,
The ‘war on terror’ is an illusion
A pollution of fear, for those who care,
To be put to confusion
As the government swears,
“Oil is not our aim, disarming WMDs is our game”
“Weapons of Mass Destruction” they claimed.
But what about weapons of mass distraction?
How do we revolt against that fatal attraction?
When the television tells lies to our vision
The mind’s imprisoned, controlled by subconscious decisions
True revolution will not be televised,
We need to fix up, look sharp, get wise
Use the net or head down to the library,
Uncover the lies that have been buried.
Che Guevara aided the Cuban revolution
He overstood the power of propaganda’s confusion
So he didn’t just teach his guerrillas how to fight,
He made sure every one of them learnt how to read and write
Revolution of the mind
Revolution of the body
Revolution of the Soul
It’s in our control
Martin Luther King said ‘let freedom reign’
Today I ask, ‘Are we truly free?’
When Aaliyah declared ‘we need a resolution’
I think we needed to make that our decree
When Marvin Gaye asked ‘What’s going on’?
He saw police brutality and poverty
And when Bob Marley sang ‘redemption song’
He said ‘emancipate yourself from mental slavery’
When Marley sang about Buffalo soldiers
Did you know about the Tuskegee Airmen?
How their courage helped the revolution
But our beautiful history extends before then
When 2pac talked about changes
Another prophet agreed
He said a revolution is a complete constructive change
It’s a 180 or full 360 degrees
A revolution is a rotational motion or axial rotation
It’s an orbital motion about a point
It’s a momentous change in a situation
Overthrow a government; remove and reappoint
Revolution of the mind
Revolution of the body
Revolution of the Soul
It’s in our control
We need to control our own businesses
We need to open our own shops
We need to conquer the 1% of the world
Who owns what the other 99 has not
We need to support the people
We need to get back to our roots
We need to be conscious to nature
Not cloud our reality with lies that pollute
We need to control the media
We need to watch what we eat
We need to break from the supremacies that exist
And pull down the strongholds of the elite
Revolution of the mind
Negative thoughts need to be brought to execution
No longer be a target of ignorant persecution
A distribution, of good thoughts
Should be your contribution
To our community, truth talks
Much higher than the institutions
That can divide
But God is higher than religion
But we don’t think
So the knowledge of life
Undergoes dilution
A lifetime of debt
That forced us into prostitution
The pimps say ‘labour for life’
And that the only absolution
To this mess, is a new order for world evolution
But we need to wake up and shout “No! The revolution is the solution”
Revolution of the mind
Revolution of the body
Revolution of the Soul
It’s in our control
To reach the common goal
Elevate from this hole
Return what’s been stole
05/10/2011
Tagged as: Africa ~ Black History Life ~ LoRo's Poem ~ Love ~ Power ~ Revolution ~ Unity ~ black ~ black history month ~ poetry ~ LoRo's Poetry ~ Prisoner To The Streets ~
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