Stand Up

Calling upon our greatest mother, standing above her far-spread grave. They're sharpening the knives and stuffing on the guns again. I wonder: is that how you felt back then? When Soldiers of Death walked your paths while the rifles made you deaf. The undying fear for life, the doom of repeating the same mistakes. Have you felt the breeze on your skin back then? When death walked over you with a smile and laughter. Are we going back in time? Are we simply choosing not to care? I fear the nightmare coming true, the history books coming alive again. Men are firing the guns, and women have to bear the unfairness of life. Who am I then? Survivor or the villain? Hero or the fallen? My generation is scared to death. Feeling stoned and frozen, like in the Nazi movies. Am I a part of Shield fighting Hydra? Or am I the Winter Soldier? Am I mind safe or am I mind rotten? They are telling us to mind our minds, to calm our balls, to stay focused on our goals. Is surviving in peace a good one? But GOD FORBID I make a too quick sudden move. We went from rapist to murderer to death to jokers on both sides of Europe to 1930s all over again in the last few months.

I have goosebumps all over my body as I think once more. Back in the day, when I read through the lines of history lessons, heard the teachers say the same things repeatedly. Searching in my mind for that famous line: YOU ARE OUR FUTURE GENERATION – of politicians, medics, writers and much more. The future is in your hands. The future is in OUR hands. THE FUTURE IS IN OUR HANDS, so when will we take it and care for it? When is it going to be okay to take it off your filthy greedy hands to heal it? In the famous words of Michael Jackson: HEAL THE WORLD, MAKE IT A BETTER PLACE. Well, tell me, you the well-known generation of fighters for freedom - the famous older people in high functions: Are you fulfilling these words? FOR YOU, FOR ME AND THE ENTIRE HUMAN RACE. Are you deaf or just ignorant? You fought the fights before us, yet you still do the moves of the unfaithful naive people before you. Are you dumb or do you miss the past so much? We are tired, we are urging action. Is this how the resistance before us felt? Are we doomed to write those same lines again? The lines of Orwell, Atwood, Čapek, Škvorecký, Hrabal. Or did those lines dance on gasoline in your mind? Is this how the writers felt when they wrote their famous lines? On the edge of throwing up, scared they are going to get passed by unnoticed, worried their voice won't be heard or seen. Who is going to read this after we are all gone? How long is this going to take?

Where is the generation of kids? Braiding their hair, running around with bows and arrows, wearing armour and waving swords, those waiting for a chance to overthrow a corrupted government one day, fighting for a way out. Grab that chance now, it is flying above your head. Those silly men are sending lies your way, throwing dirt in your face, burning those dreams which were once yours. MJ was not fucking around when ALL HE WANTED TO SAY IS THEY DON'T REALLY CARE ABOUT US. If our ancestors were living, THEY WOULDN'T LET THIS BE. So, I am begging you to TAKE AN ACTION! And take it NOW while you still can.