• How many questions must be left unasked, passions unfueled, and dreams unfulfilled for the world to see how it dims the luminosity of its people?

    How many times must our quest for mindless equilibrium destroy the inquiring spirits of the modern day Einsteins before our spoiled, obese world whines its way to action?

    Our way of life is rising about as fast as it can climb up the backs of those who had never had a chance,

    And expands its greedy claws as long as our nonrenewables do not cause us to consume ourselves like seagulls, cawing for that last seemingly harmless bit of Alka-Seltzer Plus.

    Our children are finding themselves lost in the fictional havens that books, videogames, stereotypes, and gangs provide,

    After they realize that the search for their place in the world leads across the divide that separates minority from majority, the rich from rich at heart, Adam from Eve, and straight people from the ‘non-straights’.

    It’s time for the adults–so to speak–to step up and take responsibility for the mistakes they so unknowingly create, so that my generation can be known as something more than the world’s janitorial staff.

    You see, I’ve got this feeling deep inside of me that this world is just not right,
    And while all I can do now is watch and warn; know this,

    When the time comes that I can make a difference,

    I’ll shine faster than they can cover me up, inspire one inquiring mind at a time until our world is screaming for change,

    Leave a ladder for the broken and replace that Alka-Seltzer with something that won’t cause us to explode.

    I’ll teach our children how to break the class ceiling and our older generations how to use a broom.

    I’ll do all this, not for the sake of my humanity, but for the dream that we–the diverse children of adversity–may one day build a society, a family, of people who will never have to wonder if they will be discriminated against for who they are,

    And a safe haven in our world where everyone’s dreams can reach past the stars.

    For that, my friends, is a dream we deserve to achieve and I will fight to the end to protect it.

    ~C. Albert