The Price of Silence
First they came for the immigrants
And I did not speak up
Because I was not an immigrant.
Then they came for the teenaged mothers
And I did not speak up
Because I was not one of them
Then they came for the Gays and Lesbians
And I did not speak up
Because I was not Lesbian or Gay
Then they came for the people of color
But as they left me alone
I did not speak up
Then they came for the Jews,
The elderly, the radicals, the farmers,
The "disabled", the trade unionists,
The poor, the artists...
But I believed they were doing it for me
And I did not speak up
Then they came for me
And by then
There was no one left to speak up

Updated version of Pastor Niemoller's reflections. Silkscreen print, lavender and black on cream. Text, with barbed wire in background.