When did you last see the Rising?

Written for Paul's challenge, remixing the following piece of his. More details at the bottom:

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when did you last see the Rising?

when did you last feel the Uproar?

these are the moments I live for - Serendipity

the slight of injustices

the gunpowder in the morning

the afterglow aftershock of the Revolution before

Why did you last laugh until you cried?

Why did you last cry until you laughed?

these collective, pivotal moments

worth protecting

Righteously celebrating, commemorating, memorializing

to yesterday's sublime wins, losses, bad days, holidays and high days

Defiantly, when did you last touch the sky?

when did you last reach out and freely grab for the clouds, sun, moon, and the stars

as I grow older, I want to stay radical

More inclined to reach up

More inclined to reach out

Because I should

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Ah, Paul, Paul, Paul...Since you've laid down the gauntlet, you, like some poor Vocal Admin, must read the musings and ramblings of my mind. Let me peel back the proverbial curtain for you and indulge the audience in the secrets of my mental stage.

Three songs popped into my head when I read your challenge: Walk This Way, Ice Ice Baby, and the collective brilliance of Hamilton (one of those three I'm not proud of, but I digress). These three songs guided my form.

I once saw an interview with Vanilla Ice about how, his opinion-not my own, could not have ripped off Under Pressure by Queen because he changed a note. Tenuous, but it gave me the idea of taking your prompted piece and changing or adding but a single word each line. I bolded words that were changed/added.

But that obviously didn't go far enough. At that point, I was just playing with synonyms, so in came the inspiration from Walk This Way Remix with Aerosmith and Run-D.M.C. There are way better writers out there with works on the influence of the quintessential remix. It's a remix that follows nearly the exact same form but spins the tonal impact of it for a genre-bending masterpiece. It inspired me to take the form Vanilla Ice laid out for me and twist the tone completely - to make a poem of the same form, but that takes a tone antithetical to the original, a juxtaposition of peace and justice, calm and violence, passivity and activity.

And in comes Mr. Alexander Hamilton with his songs of revolution.

So there you go, Paul. Enjoy and great challenge!

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