The Day Freedom Died: By Rochwen

Watch them burn your freedom.

Watch them choke your voice.

You see the fires burning,

Sparks reaching to the sky.

Hold that sight forever,

Today freedom will die.

You watch the smoking gasses,

Choking the clear air.

Speak now, my friend,

Of all that is just and fair.

For today they burn your freedom,

Today they choke your voice.

They do not have mercy,

They will never care.

They only want broken voices,

And to see your vacant stare.

Now you will always remember:

How you watched them burn your freedom,

How you let them choke your voice.

I even heard you give a mightly cheer;

Do not say you had no choice.

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Ohio, Kent State University

May 4, 1970

The day freedom, right to assemble and free speech died.

I will never let freedom die again.

NEVER