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     Outcasts Change The World

 

It is always the Outcasts who change the world

the ones scorned early on

in school, or family

 

by the opposite sex

 

the beautiful

 

or the super-talented

by massive systems

 

who count them, us

 

as useless

 

by the ruthless

 

the rich

   

the strong

 

the hidden psychopaths

the institutions

 

all say

   

you are nothing:

 

fat,

   

or ugly

   

or poor

   

or crazy

   

or dangerous

 

unsmart

   

wants you to go away.

Some cut themselves
drink to much
rail, flail helplessly
strike out blindly
huddle
in dark corners
in the back
in the booth
blot out
Life, Unbearable.

But some of us don't believe it

nourish that glimmer

 

which states

 

perhaps it is not me

 

perhaps it is them

 

and the world

 

they have created

 

a world which

 

if truly superior

 

to me

   

would not treat me

 

the way they treat

 

me.

   
     

Then two of us communicated

then four

   

16, 32, hundreds, thousands

and the chorus rang out

"It is not us"

 

and the fear receded just enough

for us to speak of it

 

speak of the unspeakable

those defined as losers

realized they are the majority

the righteous

 

the wronged

 

the human beings

 

in a sea of predators

the just

   

and the only ones

 

who could grasp

 

the reins of true freedom

from the greedy

 

the grasping

 

the complacent

 

the mirror-logged

 

the paralyzed

 

the too fearful

 

the suppressors

 

of the many.

 
     

The Outcasts

 

realized that to live

 

fully

   

they had to change

 

the world

 

by showing up

 

by protesting

 

by casting off Shame

by not accepting rules

 

which made them feel bad

about themselves

 

by envisioning

 

a better world.

 

Outcasts

   

are the only ones

 

who can change the world.

    And they can do it
    the same way Jesus did.

 

 

 

 

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Reviewed by Ronald Hull 2/3/2014
A wonderful rant of a poem! And so true! I believe there is a beatitude that says, "the weak shall inherit the earth."

Ron

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