To the editor:
Let them not say we didn’t care.
…We love our freedom;
…We love our children;
…We love our neighbor;
…We love our town, our city, our state;
…We love our county—
Our country, that birther of dreams, built on a dream.
Our country, powered by hope, and by yesterday and tomorrow.
Our country, sustained by the acts of all who came before.
Let them not say we didn’t care.
Let them not say we didn’t care enough.
Let them not say we didn’t care enough to vote.
(Note: Poem concept patterned after Jane Hirshfield’s “Let Them Not Say”)
Kathy Leonardson
Cloutmans Lane