It has been a long time
Since I cried.
I became hard.
Yesterday, Chiefs and drummers
Lead my children and I on a march
For 215 children found in a mass grave
On Residential School land.
Stolen land.
I could not contain my cries.
I cried when I heard the Elder yell,
“No more children
Will leave their Mothers!”
I cried when people marched behind
My mother, children and I.
It was an acknowledgement
For my Grandparents that were taken
To Residential School;
For my Mother that was taken
To a group home;
For my siblings and I that were taken
To foster care;
For CFS in Calgary trying to take
My children.
Everything I have been saying,
Everything the Native people
Have been saying
Is being heard.
No children forgotten.
Canada, the world is awake to you now.
