Injustice
accumulates like snow
avalanches ...
thundering defiance
accumulates like snow
tumbling clouds.
Thundering defiance
deafeningly loud
tumbling clouds
suffocating voices,
deafeningly loud,
silence choices.
Suffocating voices
beneath weight of white
silence choices
buried, but not quite.
Beneath weight of white
voices will not remain
buried but not quite
still cry out.
Voices will not remain
restrained, silenced
still cry: out!
Swim through snow to surface
restrained, silenced
in terrain greatly changed
swim through snow to surface
dark to light.
In terrain greatly changed
those former powers
dark, to light
exposed.
Those former powers
just ice
exposed
in justice
Dee Horne is a creative writer. She respectfully acknowledges the traditional unceded territories of the Coast Salish people and thanks the Snaw’naw’as and Qualicum First Nations for allowing her to live on their shared territories.
