All Taken

• Quentin Perrin, Grade 8
• Poetry
• 2022

A roaring boat is off to sea
Looking for land
On the horizon, is what it sees,
What it greedily needs.
The land has been owned
But only by First Nations People
It’s when they all know
To have the land “fight for all!”
Black and white
Off to fight
As the white forcefully ‘civilize’
Land and life stolen
From poor innocent human
But too late,
It’s a stolen state
Apologised in 2008.