“3000”

3000. 3000. One number and three zeros. It was the beginning. It was the start of a thing not meant to be. 3000.

It was in this very year everything changed. I couldn’t figure why? Why has this happen to our dear country? America, once it was a free eagle soaring toward heaven but not it’s all gone. After that Great Civil War some fifteen years ago America split in half. Soon after, America collapsed and then it started. For some odd reason things turned quiet. Not quiet as in being soundless, but the other one. The one in which no one spoke at all. One way or another we have become afraid.

We didn’t dare voice our thoughts. The Age of Silence it was and is. Eventually, America turned into a part monarchy and dictatorship. It wasn’t pleasant. It wasn’t at all pleasant. Be killed or suffer with that so called king of ours. This wasn’t suppose to be. America was suppose to be great with laws and the sweet freedom of talk. However, the once admired Constitution just lay in ashes beneath that horrid mansion of our “king”.

Today is seems just like any other day. Quiet as was expected and dark as it usually was. I’m sitting here today. I’m at my desk staring at the rich, red brown mahogany wood slowly rotting away. It would be soon, very soon. Only moments till the end of this silence. But I would gone, yes, I would be gone.

“A young lady of high treason has been sentenced to her end today,” the news reporter announced. “Her name which will not be released due to the crimes she has committed against our King. The crimes were her writings. Two that are titled as ‘I Will Not Be Silent’ and ‘What We once were’ has been banned. Any other writings by her will also be banned. Currently, she’s awaiting her sentence at the Prison of Forfeit.

On further news, the young lady has begun the Revolt of Voice and the fight for the ‘lost America’….”