These are my people sleeping by kaiorton, literature
Literature
These are my people sleeping
They sit quietly on their front porches
Looking out over a vast and devastated land
Land granted by the people who stole their first home
First children
First destiny
They laugh loudly around a table
Eating food half cooked with love, half despair
Food of tradition and food of charity
Farmed food
Canned food
They sleep soundly with troubled dreams
Tossing their bodies and never waking
Bodies too old to be young, aged by the stolen pride that preserves youth
Bent bodies
Forgotten bodies
These are my people sleeping!