First they came...2022

Given the current circumstances, I felt it was necessary to update Martin Niemöller’s poem, “First they came…,” from 1946 for the new era we are in.

First they came for the abortions

And I did not speak out

Because I did not want an abortion

Then they came for contraception

And I did not speak out

Because I didn’t always need contraception

Then they came for same sex marriage

And I did not speak out

Because I was not in a same sex relationship

Then they came for the interracial couples

And I did not speak out

Because I was not in an interracial couple

Then they came for the immigrants

And I did not speak out

Because I was not an immigrant

Then they came for the native children

And I did not speak out

Because I did not have native children

They rolled back every law they could

From New York to Hollywood

And when they came for me

There was no one left

No one was left to speak for me

And now I’m imprisoned in the land of the free

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