Franklin Price Poet Rhyme

I Think We Must Remember

I Think We Must Remember
(the Charleston massacre)
 By Franklin Price
6/20/2015

I think we must remember
What happened at the church
Become involved by climbing down
From our isolated perch

Learn to recognize the signs
Of the malcontent and mad 
Report them to authorities
To prevent more future dead

To know about and stand and watch
As atrocities are done
Makes us as bad as the perpetrator
We might as well have been the one

We must keep our eyes wide open
And listen with our ears
Not shirk responsibility
Prevent more future tears

Let us grieve this loss together
For this terrible act to cry
If just one would have taken action
The nine would not have had to die

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