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May you live in interesting times
It is a turning point.
Echoing from the future and the past
It is a test.
Have you learned your lesson yet?
It is a joining
A hundred universes, a thousand
It is a moment
All roads are leading there
It is a choice
Will you stand by, silent?
How will history remember
This moment in time
What will they say
All those years down the line
When they speak of the people
All standing, all sure
Will they be guardians or enablers
To this far future
Will we be protectors
When it is all done
Will the stories reflect
The good we have done
Or are we enablers
To those who look back
Will we be complicit
In some horrible act.
There can be no silence
When evil appears
No neutrality found
When the horrified whispers reach our ears
Let your voices ring out
And you will be heard
History will sing
With your spoken word
Have your actions speak for you
In this rising tide
Be a shield, not a monster
To those terrified
We have lived our ideals
And waited to speak
While others use our own rules
To strip sound from our speech
Tolerance we preached
And tolerance we lived
And intolerance grew
Because of the space we thought to give
When you look back time
To this ancient Chinese curse
Will your actions have made things better
Or your inaction made it worse.
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