vessel breaking déjà vu . . .

first they came for the communists & i did not speak out,
because i was not a communist . . .

then they came for the socialists & i did not speak out,
because I was not a socialist . . .

then they came for the trade unionists & i did not speak out,
because i was not a trade unionist . . .

then they came for the jews & i did not speak out
because i was not a jew . . .

then they came for me & there was no one left
to speak out for me . . .

german lutheran pastor, martin niemöller | *1892 †1984 |

exile in the fatherland | m. niemöller’s letters from moabit prison.

eighty-seven years afterwards & brittle substances, crystal-like fragments once again, in the darkness . . .