I DREAM OF A DISTANT LAND
Our futures are uncertain
Will we rise another day
Wake to see the sunshine
This no one can say
Our safety is in jeopardy
The fighting has yet to cease
Help me escape the torture
Give me a change- I beg you, please
I am alone in this world,
Or so it seems to me,
My family has long since perished
I long to be set free.
Put down the weapons
Stop the bloodshed
What can be gained
By another 1000 dead?
This war is far from over
Is there life behind this forbidding wall
A purpose for my existence,
Someone to catch my fall?
I can not go on living like this,
Where can I go from here?
Other than deeper and deeper
Consumed by hate and fear
I hear of a land
Where men and women walk free
A place where peace exists
Is this true, how can this be?
Is there such a world
So unlike the one
I’m in I have no proof
But can not help but grin.
I’ve been told that people live in castles
And money grows on trees
The government exists not to kill
But to fulfill your every need.
There is something more for me
Something more to life
Someone out there must care
I slowly release the knife
I decide to go on living
Waiting for the day
I learn there is in fact
Some other way
To free myself from the horror
And rid myself of the pain
A place where the sun does rise
Hidden behind the rain
I know that you are out there
Somewhere far away
I’ll sit here and wait for your rescue
And continue to pray
That until that day does come
I can escape the hand that kills
I can hide without them finding me
Today my blood they will not spill.
But time is running out
Or so I fear
I can feel them all around me
They are quickly drawing near
I imagine a land
Where there is no more violence
The men have stopped killing
Such bittersweet silence
But such a place is but a distant dream
For those like me
To you I am just another statistic
Not worthy of being set free
You sit back in your castles
And walk around in your $100 dollar shoes
And pretend to care about our suffering
As you watch us on the news
On your 40 inch plasma T.V
You sit back and wonder
But in the end you switch to M.T.V
I am still just another number.
Katrina Fenton, 19, Canada.
