Franklin Price Poet Rhyme

Notes About The Poem

It is up to We the People to preserve our rights or we will lose them. Neither political party is your friend if you are not rich enough to donate to them. We have to force them, through our votes, to care for us. 

I posted this same titled poem recently and, it was pointed out, that it sounded like a veiled threat. I did not intend that at all. My point was that the government does not control We the People and we will not stand for getting rid of any of our rights without us (We the People) being in agreement. I am removing the previous post and replacing it with this, which has additional stanzas for clarification, not submission.

 

Amendments One and Two

Amendments One and Two
By Franklin Price
11/16/2018

Lately I've been thinking
About amendments one and two
And of the rights they guarantee
To the likes of me and you

The first is for the right of speech
For religion and for press
For gathering in a peaceful manner
Not to lie and cause duress

To petition Representatives
Who are sitting on the hill
To tell them of our grievances 
That we've more than had our fill

Representatives elected
To represent us one and all
Not to represent their parties
Who have sent them to the ball

Not to bow down to the mega rich 
Not To guarantee their quest
Not to take their dirty money
That puts them to the legal test

The Congress to be seated
At the beginning of the year
Should consider we the people
We the people make that clear

And if they do not listen
No matter what we do
And try to take our rights away
We still have amendment two

We have the right to bear our arms
Protect ourselves and family
If they try to take our rights away
We should not go out quietly

I pray we never have to act
I hope we all agree
If Washington would do its job
We will never have to see

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