215 roses

If only 215 red roses could dry up the tears

of 215 families who have lost their children

and found in a mass grave.

Their only crime was for being 

born to indigenous parents.

But it was their land, their lives

and their own way of life.

Who were we to demand to educate

and make them to reflect our 

christians believes.  

Last week these parents hoped that

one of these 215 children was one that

was theirs, yes reader it was an unmarked

grave, so the sorrow still exists even today

at the site of this grave and no one really

knows how many or where they are of 

these children of the land are ...

A resume : 

From 1883 to 1996, nearly 150,000 Indigenous children were separated from their families, often by force, and sent to the government-funded, church-run schools in an attempt to assimilate them. There, many faced neglect and physical and sexual abuse. Speaking Indigenous languages and practicing their traditions were forbidden.