The Age of Aquarius

It was the dawning of the Age of Aquarius

when we lay ourselves across the steps

of the Capital buildings and sat

chained together by the ideals we held close,

a world without war and violence, but peace,

one humanity, harmony and understanding,

sympathy and trust abounding, even as we asked

the questions, how many roads must a man walk down?

Our hair and our clothes and our music set us apart

from them, them against us, tuning out, this establishment

bent on violence and death and beating us back, beating

us down; and perhaps they did as we traded in our bell

bottoms and tie-dyed shirts and peace sign pins

for the uniforms of adulthood and took our places

in the workforce and family life, this new order,

lying dormant, though, even as we waited.

And the war ended and the broken people came home,

re-assimilated – or not – watching, though, for the sun

to rise and with it another day, another age,

another Aquarius dawning.

Now we ask a question that can’t be answered,

nor does it matter really, are we seeing the end

of Pisces’ values and a new dawning come to fruition?

Dormant no more, broken people remember,

and we rise with this new dawn, chained still together

by the ideals of peace, harmony and understanding,

locked arm in arm, new chains binding us, strengthened,

together lying again on the steps of the Capital buildings,

as we did before, millions together rising up,

hell, no, we won’t go, won’t go away this time,

beat down no longer, nor beat back;

we can never forget, nor will we: No more

falsehoods or derision, golden living dreams

of visions, mystic crystal revelation

and the mind’s true liberation.

Equality, respect, an uplifting of spirit

and a unity of humaneness, a new consciousness

of rightness rising, a global cause in a world

gone mad begun again as it does each age,

each generation, growing stronger and stronger,

the dawning of the age of Aquarius rising anew,

waking, waking us, millions, millions united

for the cause of humanity: Peace will guide the planets,

and love will stir the stars, the moon in the seventh

house and Jupiter aligned with Mars.