Tyler Clark

Rise

Rise up.

Rise up like a phoenix.

Rise up like 5 o'clock meant liberation for all oppressed people time.

Rise up like Martin Luther King and Malcolm X are back from the dead; marching through the

streets.

Rise up like there are no more wars.

Rise up like your actions can stop all wars.

Rise up like world hunger does not exist.

Rise up like you can end world hunger.

Rise up like this is the last day of war.

Rise up like homelessness does not exist.

Rise up like your actions can ensure that homelessness does not exist.

Rise up like all nuclear weapons vanished from the Earth.

Rise up like your actions can make all nuclear weapons vanish from the Earth.

Rise up like climate change was finally solved.

Rise up like your actions can solve climate change.

Rise up like this is the day that we find the cure to cancer.

Rise up like you can study science and you can find the cure to cancer.

Rise up like this is the day that all of your student loans, they're cancelled.

Rise up like you can organize your fellow students and burn that school to the fucking ground.

Rise up like this is the day they start paying you to go to college.

Rise up like the people of Ukraine, fighting for their lives.

Rise up like you will make a difference in this world.

Rise up like you matter to someone.

Rise up like they're gonna write your name in the history books.

I am rising up like when I went back to college at 30 to finish my degree.

I am rising up remembering everytime depression made me want to end my life.

I am rising up like my mother when my father abandoned us.

I am rising up like my mother when she got cancer and fought through that shit.

I am rising up,

like my mother

when she was run over by a truck,

and she lost her leg

and lived to tell the story.

I am rising up so

that I may live

to tell

my story.