1 Percenters

They are the activists.
The difficult sods.
The awkward ones.

Those who don't toe the corporate line.
Those who ask questions.
Why? How come? Says who?

Those who don't take things at face value.
Who don't bend in front of popular opinion.
Who put their body on the line for their beliefs.
Who see the big picture when we see
only tomorrow.

Society struggles to accept them.
Governments try to ignore them.
Big business would like to silence them.
But they cannot be silenced, lobbied
or bought off.

They are driven to protect this planet of ours.
Belief is all they have. And all they need.
And they fight on all our behalfs.

Yet we will not say a thank you.
There will be no monuments built in their name.
They will never be asked for their autograph.
We will not even know their names.

But without them who will speak for the trees?
Who will speak for the rivers, the seas,
the wild places?
Who will speak for the air we all breathe?
Indeed, who'll speak on behalf of this planet
of ours.

Not you or I.

We have the right to remain silent.
What is worrying is our desire to do so.



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the thought that people who step into themselves and LIVE are named 1 percenters is not how life is meant to be lived. i think it's simple and we have made it so difficult, we find the courage and the calm to just be ourselves and who God created us to be simple and purely his. think about it.