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She didn’t have a fairytale life With happily ever afters Or special tea parties with looney Mad Hatters She grew up imagining Prince Charming on a white horse She was a pretend Sleeping Beauty who’s path took a different course Drugs, gifts and deception Trafficked for human pleasures No high seas adventures or searching for treasures With the smell of sweat and beer From the next working fellow She held onto Snow White and her favorite Cinderella She wasn’t blond like Rapunzel With that flowing long hair Still that never deterred them From touching her down there He called her his Pocahontas His slave of the prairie Sure she was kinda pretty But not someone he’d marry Separation from her people a heroine needle in her arm It was the prison prick illusion That held so much charm She could escape to her castle And let her shame drift away Slip into pools of perfection While white fairies would play No one to rescue her Her Prince Charming was a Snake So she finally saved herself By making her own escape No more Fairytale deceptions She now warns the girls she meets “Stay away from pretend Princes those Snakes run these streets.” Native women are disproportionately victims of human trafficking. Residential schools played a role in separating them from their own history, language and stories.
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