Constance La France Poet Prose Poetry

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Poetry/Prose Poetry/Finding Remains
Copyright Protected, ID 01-156-938-08
All Rights Reserved, 2023, Constance La France

Written August 01, 2023
For the International Contest, Relativity - Time - A Vignette
Sponsor, Suzette Richards Judged 08/26/2023

Honorable Mention

Finding Remains - B

In Canada, the First Indigenous Communities sadly watched as the ground 
penetrating high-tech equipment searched and found the unmarked graves
of residential school children. These children were taken from their homes
by force, beaten, raped, and killed, and buried in unmarked graves in what
is called the Sixties Scope.  As an Ojibway girl, I watched too.

In a Manitoba church basement archeologists detected fourteen possible
graves sites thinking they could be human remains of children.  

Some in the community said let the dead rest, others demand justice for
these children taken by the government. Is there relativity in digging up
the remains after all this time?

I have screamed to the sky at each revealed grave, why!  Oh, no time can
erase the hurt and pain of the Indigenous people. This is part of the history
of Canada. No words can ever remove it.  Yes, it happened, it was real !

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Malabika Ray Choudhury August 4, 2023 at 7:49 PM Dear Constance, This story is true - it's the history of Canada. unbelievable how much cruelties were done to children!My heart breaks thinking about those families whose children were taken away. You have created a beautiful piece of writing remembering that sad part of Canadian history. Constance La France August 5, 2023 at 10:01 AM Mala, thank you so much for your comment, and compliment. As a fellow Canadian you know of this scar on our history that no words, no action can ever erase, the gov't has to help bring the families of these children some kind of closure though I don't think it is possible, blessings!