Taken

• Ana Vanovac, Grade 9
• Poetry
• 2007

I was taken
From my family,
And from my freedom.
I was taken
And put in a steel cage,
The monstrous, metallic bars
Smiled back at me.
My black skin glistened
With beads of sweat
No one listened
As I screamed for help.
No one heard my words.
There was nothing,
Only darkness.