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candle inside a palm symbolising unity consciousness and hope for humanity a poem written by Timi Orosz

Hope for Humanity

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The flickering 
The flickering
The flickering light. 

What’s it gonna take to push you 
Down the page into a history book?
Without the troops,
Without the bruised
Egos, you know you should
Stand up to what’s right for humanity
Right for our sanity 
Instead of chasing vanity metrics
You are tearing down the gates of the Matrix
Like a burnt out dominatrix
You drop the pretence
As you relax into speaking the truth 
We can’t win this fight without the youth
Without you
Without me
Without the unity
That could be: we.

The flickering 
The flickering
The flickering hope. 

What’s it gonna take to say “no more”?
Our rights stripped back in plain sight 
Is not something we had on our bingo cards
Is my voice just another noise
In your over-stimulated brain?
Or can you erase the hate
Instead of just scrolling with no aim?
It’s insane how we became digitally enslaved
Believing we’re fighting wars with two taps
Too sad
Too late for trends
The freedom of our future is slipping 
Right under our fingers
With each scroll and silent anger
We’re silencing our collective anchor
When does it stop?

The flickering 
The flickering
The flickering love. 

What’s it gonna take to feel we’re enough?
“Down the rabbit hole” is above ground
Without judgment 
Without adjustment
We could breathe freely side by side
If only we truly tried 
And not be tired of the unnecessary hate
We create to keep us separated 
This now stops! It starts with us
Saying no more to manipulation,
Limitation and oppressed truths 
You know how this unfolds already
When you’re ready to love with equality 
But when we label each other 
And don’t trust what makes us “us”
The rabbit hole closes up 
Leaving Alice forever lost

The flickering 
The flickering
The flickering.

You decide if it’s still flickering. 

road to Zion closed symbolic image for social injustice

Trigger of ignorance

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On the road to Zion, the sirens are filling up our streets. 
Inside our walls we are disconnected, searching for retreats. 
Hiding our real beliefs behind screens and ring lights, 
Slowly waving goodbye to our human rights.
While our fights are going nowhere. 

Loud voices but where’s the action? 
Big statements but no progression. 
The anger inside us ignites within 2 seconds 
Yet we don’t grasp the reality of modern weapons
Our attention after 2 seconds, you know it’s where.

Shots are fired deep into the core of your mind 
And your only reaction is: “I’m all right”
Get up, stand up, look at yourself!
Look at me, holding the gun to my head. 
The trigger of ignorance blows my brain where? 

I want kindness to splatter all over you when I shoot, 
I want empathy dripping off of your new jacket. How cute. 
I want compassion to drench your freshly cut hair,
I want unconditional love to stain your designer chair. 
I just don’t know about freedom. It’s going where?

This is no longer black and white. 
This is no longer left and right.
This is a page in a history book
We can edit it now or we’re cooked.
The nowhere is now here.

Complete equality

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Instead of a long inspirational message to women this year, I’m speaking to men on International Women’s Day. Why? Because so many women have already woken up my friends and they’re doing their thing: being outspoken, achieving their goals and dealing with everyday sexism without whinging. Simply we’re getting on with what we want and dusting off our shoulders after facing challenges. Keep on going ladies!

Dear men,

I’m grateful to those of you who treat a person as another human being despite their gender. Those of you who are not afraid to speak up when sexism takes place. Those of you who raise your daughters making sure she can become whoever she wants to be, encouraging her to get her full potential. Those of you who stand by your sisters and mothers to get their voices heard. Those men who are capable of adapting to change and realise that for a very long time women were repressed. They have started to rise only 100 years ago. That’s not a very long time considering that we’re writing 2018…I’m thankful that there is a change taking place and I can live in an era to be part of it. As this change is still ongoing and even though we have come a long way there’s still plenty of space for improvement.

Complete equality means to me, personally, that we all get to play this game, called life, with the same opportunities no matter what your gender is. No anger towards each other but instead why not collaborate and lift each other up? Who cares what was the ‘norm’ for men and for women?

I say, every living person should have the freedom to do what they want. Doesn’t matter what that is and whether you’re a woman or a man. We need to have the freedom of choice to decide how we want to live our lives. Excuse my language but fuck gender associated ‘norms’! Go get out there and do your best based on what YOU want. And that’s that.

 

 

Mind the gap

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Gender pay gap – yes, yes you’ve heard it all before, you know women get paid less than men and you know that feminists are angry about this. So what can we do to make things better?

If you don’t feel your blood boiling because of the fact that some people put less cash in their pocket for doing the same job, then let me put it this way to you. Your sister / mother/ closest female friend working for 7 years will get 1 year less salary overall than a male colleague. Is it fair? No. Can we speak up? Hell yes. Let’s not be victims but be the ones who turn things around.

Here’s what you can do: as a female don’t feel guilty for asking for a pay rise. Men are likely to earn more money because they won’t over-think telling their bosses that they want a higher salary. Asking for your pay package to reflect your hard work is not bitchy. It’s smart, so do it. As a male please realise that women are smart and creative business partners and they are not there to make you coffee or organise your files. They are employed to be heard, so listen.

This is not about feminism, it’s about fairness. If men were paid less than women I would stand by this cause the exact same way. So speak up ladies, and listen gentlemen!