If this were your child, your sister, your mother

Think about these people
the ones they care for
the stories they are telling
their crying out
Not as strangers
as members of your family
changing the names
to the loved ones in your life
If this were your child,
your sister, your mother
would you make the same choices
for those would share you table
would you cut the services
would you trim that budget
if the person you were hurting
were in your family
For we are one people together
in covenant relation
the social contract breaking
right before our eyes
yes we are our brother’s keeper
the one they count on
to live in freedom
sometimes just to survive
The choices easy
when they are merely strangers
numbers on a page
costing the State money
but what if this is your child,
your sister, your mother
would you forgo new taxes
at the cost of their lives

March 13, 2011
calling on the NH Legislature
and the Governor
to spare those without a voice
those who need us
from the severe budget cuts
that are currently planned
in HB1 and HB2, etc.
&
in part based on the testimony
http://www.nhepiscopal.org/index.php?view=article&id=125:testimony&tmpl=component&print=1&layout=default&page=
of The Rt. Rev. V. Gene Robinson,
Episcopal Bishop of New Hampshire
March 10, 2011
&
testimony of Kathy Needleman
March 10, 2011

Raymond A. Foss, Esq.
Law Offices of Raymond A. Foss, PLLC
Poetry Where You Live
160 Main Street
Suncook, NH 03275-1206

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