Raven's Song

This poem is dedicated to someone who experienced extreme childhood trauma at the hands of his uncle. He was a part of a group of victims who never received justice for the crimes that were committed. In his anger and desperation of not being heard, this boy would seek the quiet solitude of the redwoods as a place to escape from the memories of what happened to him. Now an adult, he still has trouble reconciling the past and the perpetrator is no longer among the living.