Shake It Up

Plaque commemorating the final loss of the 'Jacobite Rebellion'.

Close to Inverness in Northern Scotland.

Shake It Up

1/29/11

Humans easily forget, fall asleep,

become victims as comfort kills,

frogs incrementally heated in water

until boiled, adapting by degree,

or if carbon monoxide poisoning

there is no warning, odorless,

as unconscious ignorance takes over,

even those supposedly more intelligent,

evolved, wise to tricky mind's

tools of ego inspired passivity,

typified as control though distracted

by paddling capitalism's stupefying surface,

shallow, stagnating, lifeless, without purpose,

not taking responsibility for aliveness,

citizens handing over their power

to entertainment, economic, government gurus

taking for granted our weakness,

just malleable clay to render,

yet, many are fighting slumber,

defiantly unwilling to support apathy,

witnessing dangers they awaken others,

continue changing, creating new world

without allowing denigration to root,

cover existence in survival motif,

instead, shake it up periodically.