Now is the time to bounce
and dive into the pool
of good trouble…splashing
waters of purpose mission
upon the dried seats of apathy.
Knowing what must be done
and doing nothing about it,
is like knowing the danger of drinking
Clorox-water and yet, gulping it down
with a smirking white-wash grin.
Basking in the heat rays of racism
only makes you a blacker soul
of its burning fires of bigotry’s hell.
The legacy of those who have drowned
in the struggle against flowing oppression
is the limited joys of your reveled apathy.
Unaware of the Middle Passage beach shores
and the lynched…boned floors of blooded rivers,
what will wallowing souls like yours tell yours
when asked, “…how did you swim and not drown
the troubling waters of roaring oppression?”
No longer can you…we…misinterpret the scriptures:
(“…wait and be of good courage…”) for the cistern
of good courage and its saucer has long overflowed;
so now is the time to get into dripping good trouble!
Wade in the waters, my people; God long troubled the
waters!
Now we must buoy our beloved kingly sons and queenly
daughters!