“We seek for tomorrow by acting today, until this world is as it was always meant to be.” – Joel McKerrow
For Tomorrow – Tear Series – Part 7
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We have LOVED bringing a little of the world of TEAR Australia to you guys this week. Not only because its an organisation founded in our own backyard, but because it’s a beautiful group of people doing crazy redemptive work.
To close out the week, and for you to take with you into this Christmas season, we wanted to leave with the words of our friend, and Poet, Joel McKerrow. He’s a TEAR ambassador and wrote this piece about the work they do.
For Tomorrow
by Joel McKerrow
“I met a man who saw the world differently
sat cross-legged at his feet, and he told me…
remember the past
but cast your eyes forward,
for tomorrow…
our hope shall be a louder voice than our apathy,
our apathy shall finally take a step forward,
our steps forward shall lead us somewhere, mean something, hold meaning like friends hold each other crying, I am crying for this world to change. Tears of empathy and sometimes apathy, I cry today
for tomorrow
even these tears shall be wiped from our faces, lift your cheeks though they are wet, there is one who shall collect them yet, hold them in his hands and call it the ocean, beckon you to set sail, turn your face to the horizon,
for tomorrow
the nooses drawn tight around the necks of the oppressed will be like halos like the saints around their heads, a guiding light for the rest of us, let us, see the way forward comes not through power and politic but through small acts of courage and change, change, change us, like loose coins are never gonna fix this problem so let us go deeper than just charity, change us like sweat shops closing, change us like politicians stop posing, change us like half the women of the world don’t have to be abused, change us like somebody has to stand up
for tomorrow
we shall not just talk of gender equality but rather women who in total work 2/3 of worlds working hours will one day get paid more than just 10% of the world’s income,
for tomorrow
we imagine a day when corners do not exist, those years of muddy lips pressed against white skin, the many times she’d lie under the weight of a man’s insecurity, forced into slavery, fingers that rubbed bruises into her flesh, as the sweat of large men stain her breasts that are the tools of her trade, street worker taking tricks on her corner, imagine a day when corners do not exist.
for tomorrow
the weapons will be piled high, and tanks left dry, drones in the sky no more, we turn their swords into ploughshares, I make a garden from your M16, I irrigate the earth from your death machine and hold out to you a meal for us all to sit at the same table
for tomorrow
Israeli and Palestinian shall sit down and have dinner again, the rich shall eat with the poor, and the oppressor with the oppressed and they shall talk of forgiveness, truth and reconciliation,
for tomorrow
the betrayed shall no longer seek revenge, and revenge shall no longer be found in the dictionary and neither shall poverty, nor infant mortality, nor hungry, nor thirsty, nor children searching through waste dumps, oil pumps leaking the ocean, 21million in slavery no more
for tomorrow we live in colour,
for tomorrow we dance on the streets
for tomorrow we look the other in the eye
for tomorrow we embrace
for tomorrow we are set free
for today WE…
crawl on hands and knees believing the tomorrow we are seeing
stretch our eyes forward, move our limbs, turn our heads toward the sound of liberation,
we wait, and this waiting is an ache, and this ache is a burden,
I ache and this ache is a burden, and this ache is a burden,
heavy and hopeful, this ache is a back scratch never quite reaching that sweet spot,
and so we keep on scratching, we keep on moving, we keep on working,
we keep on crawling, we keep going forward,
we seek for tomorrow by acting today, until this world is as it was always meant to be.”
You can watch the “For Tomorrow” video here:
fortomorrow.org.au/stories/story/joel-mckerrows-hope-for-tomorrow
You can find out more about TEAR Australia here:
tear.org.au
usefulgifts.org
fortomorrow.org.au
Facebook.com/tearaus
Insta: @tearaustralia
Twitter: @TEARAustralia
More tomorrow…
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