Thursday, May 04, 2017
What to Tell the Children
What to Tell the Children
First, they took away
our voice,
the one we used to tell them
they are wrong.
Then they said
we could not meet
together,
to discuss, to plan,
to act.
Then they went on
to take away
our very being,
how we keep ourselves
going,
who we are,
what we stand for,
something about an ancient respected document
repealed.
Now we are here
in this lonely place,
the barbed wire
holds us in,
we wonder how it was
we got here,
what to tell the children.
Dorothy Walters
May 4, 2017
