Not Who We Are

I listen with disbelief
at the grim facts
our government’s choices
to abandon justice
for a false belief in security
from our acts of torture,
of hidden prisons,
and nameless captive
We no longer can claim
this is not who we are.


June 16, 2007 17:06



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