It's all about choices
…Amidst the rhetoric of why…
Circumstance…the system
….Omnipresent…the lie
Analyzing sheer politics
‘Tis a valid complaint
..Hillary...branded a liar
For God's sakes…who ain't
It all…comes down to choices
….When questing…for truth
The belligerent…the bellicose
….Is bigoted….uncouth
The Judgment at Nuremberg…
Forgotten truth…on the shelf
A nagging………proposition
…History resurrecting….itself
Indeed…it's all about choices
….Denigrating….the why
Insidious proliferations
…Omnipresent…the lie
Author's Note:
'First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—Because I was not a Socialist. Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Trade Unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out — Because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.'
~Martin Niemöller (1892-1984) was a prominent Protestant pastor who emerged as an outspoken public foe of Adolf Hitler and spent the last seven years of Nazi rule in concentration camps.
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem