Salem's Witch

Open you history books,
Do you see the missing?
Do you see the lost?
Do you see the dead?

Do you see my name?

There's an answer to this: no.
You of this age are so unaware of entire cultures, countries, races, wiped away.
And without a single page entitled to our name.

Do you see my name?

Why is that?
Because history is written by those who win the war.

And those who win the war, will erase every trace of you, if they please.
Thousands of lives lost, living or not, are lost.

Their names all replaced with a single word.
'Deaths'
'Casualties'
'Victims'

Do you see my name?

Name- names- our names- your name-mine.
The word becomes numb on the tongue and foreign.
Decades later, I'm sad to say, even I have forgotten my name.

Open your history books,
Do you see my name?
I believe you might.
A form of it.
Four words takes its place.

The Salem Witch Trials.