I HEAR THEIR CRIES

By: Christine Miskonoodinkwe Smith

I HEAR THEIR CRIES:

By: Christine Miskonoodinkwe Smith

I hear their cries

As I try to sleep

Their words

Whispering 

In my ears

Please I want to go

Home

I think of the lost 

And what must have 

Been going through 

Their minds

As they were led away

And the government long 

Saying

No there’s been no genocide

We’ve committed no crime

But I hear their cries 

As I try to sleep

Their words

Whispering 

in my ears

Please I want to go 

Home 

Please I ask you

Think of those lost

The 215 children

Buried

Forgotten

And buried 

In unmarked

Graves