What needs to change
so the world as it is
can wake up?
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What needs to change
so the world as it is
can love us?
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What needs to change
right now
so we can breathe?
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What needs to change
so our sisters and brothers
can be as free as we are?
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And what needs to change
so that we
can be free too?
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What needs to change
in our voices, our postures,
our pacing?
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What needs to change
in how
we try to change our bodies?
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What needs to change
in our newspapers
and in our budgets?
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What needs to change
in our language
and in our bedrooms?
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What needs to change
in how
we look in the mirror?
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What needs to change
in our lovemaking
in every moment?
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What needs to change – tonight! –
so we may wake up
freer in the morning?
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What needs to change
next week
to nurture all the Miriams and Moshes?
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And what needs to change
so that every Pharaoh
gets twelve hugs a day?
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What needs to change
so that I have a voice
and you have ears?
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I know what needs to change
and you know what needs to change
and we will be the change.
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Amen
