More than culture shock existing away from home
A cruel design perfected ready for stunning growth
Mandatory boarding schools broke the ties to family and land
But they also instilled profound confusion of suffering in silence
Callous remains of childhood! Unsalvageable memories!
Everything seems better but these mistakes in the past are only hidden well
Too much for a child to handle, what did they do wrong?
In the age of understanding, this practice consumed our civility
But with all the educators still enforcing the imperial mentality
They got away with hundreds of years of xenophobic brutality
Intentional child abuse; the exact means to get the most disruption
Lowered esteem to mask an identity, propagate the crisis into belief
All to gain new territory, to be condemned for recreation
This was continued until it was just accepted as an unyielding reality
Returning home from a prison, scarred enough for a life time
Ready to pa** the cruelty, beaten into their minds
Lashing out to a world that harmed them completely
Creating the instability all around us, seeping until it's our identity
Who we were was taken; Replaced by confusion
Waiting in Old age to be reclaimed
A root that's rarely talked about; covered up by those
Who we're still supposed to trust, with our family
Descendants of mistreatment; on and on, until
It's not their fault anymore
It's not anyone's fault anymore, it's your home