In a civil society, people can talk and there is light…
Each week The Sunday Whirl invites writers to write a poem or short prose using some or all of the “Wordle’s” 12 words. This week it is:
Wordle’s words
A Civil Society
I am no more blinded, I think,
than any of the umbra’d people who
transmit their messages inside this spinning living drum;
insisting their voices be heard, hoping their words matter,
wanting to believe that the power
of a mass of shadowy threads of web
might make a change:
That, here or there, small rays of light might appear,
without someone somewhere in the world being shot for writing it –
or for even reading it.
Randy Mazie
The Writer's Village 
That indeed would be a civil society – it is easier to forget that what we ‘do’ here…cannot be done in some parts of the world..sobering and comforting in equal measure
Yes. thank you, we do have more freedom of speech than in most of the rest of the world. I shudder thinking of the gentleman from Afghanistan, who I heard about this morning while listening to NPR who was shot and left for dead, who spoke out for human rights there in a humane and civil manner.
Randy
One cannot be reminded of this fact too often.
The thought of someone being shot for what was read, sends a shiver down my spine and will haunt my thoughts for some time. Thank you for reminding us of what could come to be.
Elizabeth
https://soulsmusic.wordpress.com/2015/12/13/wondering-quandary/
When we achieve that, poets will regain there true place in the arts of humanity! Very nice!