04-16-2019, 07:56 AM
Strange Land
She had to leave her home,
Norway House, to discover
a screwdriver isn't supposed
to be stabbed through a hand,
or other parts that all equally begged
to spare a life left stained in snow.
Brown skin the only reason they needed,
her screams shattered a night,
pleasingly silent before and after.
Later, her name is compiled in a long list,
in a country I used to think I knew.
She had to leave her home,
Norway House, to discover
a screwdriver isn't supposed
to be stabbed through a hand,
or other parts that all equally begged
to spare a life left stained in snow.
Brown skin the only reason they needed,
her screams shattered a night,
pleasingly silent before and after.
Later, her name is compiled in a long list,
in a country I used to think I knew.
Time is the best editor.