Because I was not an Immigrant

Then they came for the teenaged mother

And I did not speak up

Because I was not one of them

Then they came for the gays and lesbians

And I did not speak up

Because I was not lesbian or gay

Then they came for the people of color

But as they left me alone

I did not speak up

Then they came for the Jews,

The elderly, the radicals, the farmers,

The “disabled”, the trade unionists,

The poor, the artists …

But I believed they were doing it for me

And I did not speak up

Then they came for me

And by then