Stories Break
A loving couple separated
and no compassion forthcoming.
What will happen to their future
as his flowers never reach her
is detention all there is?
Indigenous children tortured
gassed and tied
not given hope or rehabilitation
and the past seems full of lies.
So much invisible
until the stories break
And the stories break
my heart
the stories break
my day
the stories make me
want to say:
Time to be a lamplighter
lamplighter of justice
lamplighter of love
lamplighter of unity.
(c) June Perkins
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