My humpty dumpty

You are in pieces in a foreign land wanting to come home to rest in peace

You are in pieces along with other pieces that just like you were fighting for our peace

You lie awake at night wiping each other’s tears

Hoping your kidnapper remembers where he hid you

They had colonised our land

colonised your body and created a boarder between us

I always knew once they cut our umbilical cord I would loose you

As I look at these crushed bones they had given back to me

they are not your body where are your brown eyes, your thick lips, your round nose, your afro hair, your dark chocolate brown skin,

all I have is a bit of pieces.

That they claim is you.

I want to see your heart

I want to see it pump blood through your body to your brain so your brain can feel the happiness in your heart and tells your lips to curve

Showing your white teeth

But like your pieces I lie awake with other mothers thinking when shall the kidnapper of my joy will remember where there hid our joy of broken bones

I’m still waiting for you to come home alive and breathing.