Jeff W. Watson Poet Haiku

What Would Our Forefathers Say

Some rights or your life?
The question's put to us all
What would be your choice?

We need to profile
Trading some rights for safety
Small inconvenience

To locate the nests
Of these cockroaches and to
Exterminate them

Arguing over
Our Constitutional rights
Is a waste of time

If our Forefathers
Could see us now, they would say,
"Destroy them all!"

Then we will have time
To live, to talk, to argue
To enjoy our rights

They fought for freedom
They gave us our civil rights
We can't let them down!

So called "intellects"
Who have over analyzed
The Constitution

Have caused us to doubt
What should be plain common sense
Thomas Payne would cry...

George Washington would
Be dismayed at how slow our
Nation was to act

Thomas Jefferson
And Benjamin Franklin would
Frown and shake their heads

But ghosts from the past
Can't lead us into battle
Can't save our future...

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