Kristallnacht 2016 - Poem for the day after the USA Election Day

[librarygeek]

Do you hear the breaking glass?

Do you hear the jackboots marching?

Have you read of the children being bullied to tears for being different?

Have you watched the videos of disabled people being beaten up?

Would you really let me have the abortions for my failed miscarriages?

Would you really stand in front of those trying to take me away?

When they come for you, will there be anyone left to speak for you?

This is the 78th anniversary of Kristallnacht. It seems HORRIBLY fitting.

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[alatefeline]

*listens*

I hope that those who I have spoken for, and in justice, *only* them, will stand for, or better yet, by me.

I have drawn some lines, marking things I will not do and acts I will not abandon. Now I need to draw a chart of steps I will take.