<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><article id="post-338" class="single-post post-338 page type-page status-publish hentry" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><div class="entry" style="text-align: justify;"><p style="color: rgb(31, 31, 31); font-family: sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 21px;">Awaken</p><p style="color: rgb(31, 31, 31); font-family: sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 21px;"><br>we are in the wake<br>of a great shifting</p><p style="color: rgb(31, 31, 31); font-family: sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 21px;">awaken</p><p style="color: rgb(31, 31, 31); font-family: sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 21px;">you better free your mind<br>before they illegalize thought</p><p style="color: rgb(31, 31, 31); font-family: sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 21px;">there’s a war going on</p><p style="color: rgb(31, 31, 31); font-family: sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 21px;">the first casualty was truth<br>and it’s inside you</p><p style="color: rgb(31, 31, 31); font-family: sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 21px;">the universe is counting on our belief<br>that faith is more powerful than fear<br>and in that the shifting moment<br>we’ll all remember why we’re here</p><p style="color: rgb(31, 31, 31); font-family: sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 21px;">in a world where you’re assassinated for having a dream<br>and the rich spend 9 billion a year to control our ideas<br>and visions are televised so things aren’t what they seem</p><p style="color: rgb(31, 31, 31); font-family: sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 21px;">we gotta believe<br>in a world where<br>there’s room enough for everyone<br>to breathe</p><p style="color: rgb(31, 31, 31); font-family: sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 21px;">cause reality is made up of<br>7 billion thoughts<br>who made up their minds<br>of what’s real and what’s not</p><p style="color: rgb(31, 31, 31); font-family: sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 21px;">so I stopped believing<br>in false idols of war<br>greed and hate<br>is not worth my faith</p><p style="color: rgb(31, 31, 31); font-family: sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 21px;">my mind’s dedicated<br>to justice<br>my soul is devoted<br>to love</p><p style="color: rgb(31, 31, 31); font-family: sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 21px;">and love is God<br>and God is truth<br>and truth is you<br>and you are me<br>and I am everything<br>and everything is nothing<br>and nothing is the birthplace of creation<br>and transformation is possible<br>and you are proof</p><p style="color: rgb(31, 31, 31); font-family: sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 21px;">we were born right now<br>for a reason<br>we can be whatever<br>we give ourselves the power to be</p><div><p style="color: rgb(31, 31, 31); font-family: sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 21px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">and right now we need<br>day dreamers<br>gate keepers<br>bridge builders<br>soul speakers<br>web weavers<br>light bearers<br>food growers<br>wound healers<br>trail blazers<br>truth sayers<br>life lovers<br>peace makers</p><p style="color: rgb(31, 31, 31); font-family: sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 21px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">give what you most deeply desire<br>to give<br>every moment you are choosing to live<br>or you are waiting</p><p style="color: rgb(31, 31, 31); font-family: sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 21px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">why would a flower hesitate to open?<br>now is the only moment<br>rain drop let go<br>become the ocean</p><p style="color: rgb(31, 31, 31); font-family: sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 21px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">possibility is as wide<br>as the space<br>we create<br>to hold it</p><div style="margin: 0px 0px 21px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="color: rgb(31, 31, 31); font-family: sans-serif; white-space: pre;"> </span><font color="#1f1f1f" face="sans-serif">- Naima Penniman</font></div></div></div></article></div></body></html>