We won’t go back
A man pulled up next to me
and interrupted my reading to ask
“Your bumper sticker,
We won’t go back,
What does that mean to you?”
I tried to explain to him
We won’t go back,
What does that mean to you?”
I tried to explain to him
The desperate fear of a life
Where I couldn’t control my own body
And he smiled and nodded and said
“I don’t agree, but you expressed yourself well,
I have hope for the next generation.”
If only hope were enough, sir,
I could hope enough for everyone,
But it isn’t.
He drove away smiling,
And I sat,
Still afraid.
I have hope for the next generation.”
If only hope were enough, sir,
I could hope enough for everyone,
But it isn’t.
He drove away smiling,
And I sat,
Still afraid.
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Thought provoking!
gross.. that sinister smile..
lemme guess, he was driving a tahoe, and a ‘friend of coal’
nice work here.
Sinister? Reads to me like he’s a kindly man who happens to disagree with her and does so civilly.
Sounds like a nice civil conversation.
Good for you!
Wait, is the speaker reading in the car, while stopped, with the window open?
Parked, window open. I was waiting for a friend.
Cool. That’s how I read it. One other question: did he say anything other than “I don’t agree, but you expressed yourself well”? Did he say what he disagreed with? Did he offer any counter arguments?
He told me he was a pastor, and commented on my age. Then he told me to have a nice day and drove off. No counterargument offered.
Powerful poem
And we cannot go back!
Well expressed.