Illuminated

An acrostic poem commemorating the Indigenous children subjected to Canada’s residential school system

Sweetgrass covered with dew in the morning light; Licensed from Volodymyr, Adobe Stock

in the years of darkness, they
lay restlessly,
left covered up and passed over.
unjustly, their pasts and futures were buried,
muddied by black soil suppressing the stories
in their blood.
nothing stays hidden
and innocent victims don’t lie peacefully.
truth has a way of…