America! Awake!

America! Awake! Awake!
Awake to a poor woman feeding her son breakfast because all she has is two eggs, one piece of bread, a carton of milk, and a box of cereal.
Awake to eyes running and blood burning from watching a skeleton dangle from a tree, charred black; This was once a human being.
Awake to a baby being slaughtered, sucked out of a womb, and stuffed into the back of the mind, of a mother who was not ready.
Awake to a Hispanic gay boy being kicked out onto the steps of a Catholic church and being stuffed into Catholic school lockers for being gay.
Awake to an innocent Muslim woman wearing a hijab, being accused of terrorism against the U.S.
Awake to bloody leaders carrying life-sized wooden crosses down dirt roads to their own crucifixions.
Awake to black skin, and a white man staring you in your face, yelling , "You gon' die today nigger!"
Awake to the kiss of a gun's barrel, in the middle of your soft forehead, as sweat trickles down to your eye brow.
Awake to a jobless white man's sobs, because he had to look through a McDonald's dumpster for food again.
Awake to skin sliding off black backs, exposing white and red flesh.
Awake to your race being used as a team mascot.
Awake to being denied access to the "American Dream" because you're not American enough.
Awake to a frozen baby lying in a dumpster behind some old crack house.
Awake to a teacher telling you that you'll either be a nobody or be dead.
Awake to holding a gun while you shoot a civilian face to face, between his brown eyes, for a cause America has instilled within you.
Awake to being denied the right to marry the person you love.
Awake to a suicide attempt.
Awake to being stoned, and then burn alive.
Awake to seeing your reflection, while standing in front of a mirror.
And then...
Awake to the change you wish to see in yourself.