NEW/REVISED POEM "Stop and Start"

Revised and expanded a poem I wrote earlier this year, "Stop and Start", and rendered a background for it using GIMP.
I strengthened the stormy metaphor a bit and also tried to make it a little more inspirational, thus "Start being / An unstoppable force of change."

Stop and Start

By Richard H. Fay

Stop waiting
For our institutions to save us.
Stop hoping
That our legislators will rescue us.
Stop looking
To the government for answers.
Stop wishing
For others to end this madness.

Start planning
Ways to weather the fascist tempest.
Start forming
Means to survive the oncoming storm.
Start making
A better future for every one of us.
Start being
An unstoppable force of change.

NEW POEM "Stop and Start"

Stop and Start

By Richard H. Fay

Stop waiting
For our institutions to save us.
Stop hoping
That our legislators will rescue us.
Stop looking
To the government for answers.
Start planning
Ways to weather the fascist madness.
Start praying
That enough of us will survive
To start making
A better future for every one of us.