Once Upon a Time
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Cessation Poetry Contest
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Police dogs used on people in Birmingham, Alabama. 1963.
"Once Upon a Time"
“Once upon a time” we lived in silence.
No one cared to listen, anyhow.
The quiet overwhelming was a stillness,
imprisonment imposed upon "slave style."
“Once upon a time” was not forever.
The voices persevered above the din.
With vibrato they demanded human freedom.
Despite a sanctioned silence, they got in.
“Once upon a time” for now is never,
cessation of the days of forced control.
All things possess a date of termination.
So, history, is a story to be told.
Copyright © Janis Medders Tobechi | Year Posted 2024
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