I Was Only One

Dear Editor, 2 Readers

R1: When your children ask of you when the country fell what did you do?

R2: I don’t know what I could have done, I was only one.

R1: When the guns enslaved the world around that good book you were curled. With all the shooting thousands fell but you were doing very well. No it didn’t happen in a day, but you were there what can you say?

R2: I don’t know what I could have done, I was only one.

R1: When the Constitution was shred, with its destruction we all bled. The Bill of Rights, they were so few. Weren’t they important to you? No it didn’t happen in a day but you were there. What can you say?

R2: I don’t know what I could have done. I was only one.

R1: One by one, two by two, people marched knowing what they had to do. Thousands rallied but you weren’t there, didn’t you even care? R2: No, it didn’t happen in a day, but I was there what can I say? There were things I should have done. Freedom should have won.

Edna Slayback Richland Center, WI