The Great Debaters & Authors - Powerful Provocateurs that Confront & Cure

Great debaters and authors

Riveting us with their words

Captivating us with their intense speech

Mesmerizing us with their mannerisms

Galvanizing us with their confrontational manner

Stirring us with their passionate oratory

Gripping us with their wisdom and insight

Amazingly uplifting us during the darkest night

Encouraging our hearts that all will be alright

Powerfully entreating us to come together

To unify and be one voice for a worthy cause

Such mighty spokespersons for a needy society

Are often deemed radical, rebels without a pause

And rightfully so, while for freedom they fight

To rectify injustice and wrongs amid humanity's plight

These great prophets and preachers arouse our soul

Comfort, heal our wounds, and make us whole

While awaking us to truth and our personal power

Unwilling to yield to the enemy who does devour

They collide full force with evildoers with lofty looks

Corporate crooks who pilfer pensions and cook the books

Politicians who purport and pontificate with patriotic rhetoric

Media moguls who censor public opinion with their spin

Government servants who merely serve themselves

Racist police who brutalize the black community

Florida boot camp workers who killed a black boy

Than were acquitted of manslaughter with immunity

NYPD killing black men at a celebratory bachelor party

Our modern society seems to have shunned morality

Forgotten all sensibility preferring profanity and vanity

But through all of this with the sword of the word and pen

Orators and authors uplift their voice to pierce and penetrate

Confront, correct, aggravate, agitate, irritate, and alleviate

Such evils that denigrate mankind's personhood and stature

Providing for society a necessary alternative view and cure

Opening for the oppressed and maligned freedom's door

Bringing forth revolutionizing words with hearts that are pure

Undoubtedly we are in need of more great debaters and provocateurs.

Of course imperialism says invade other nations beaches and shores

Send fighter pilots overhead to bomb evildoers and innocents galore

Meanwhile politicians with patriotric rhetoric give threats and roar