215 - Brian Doerksen, Carolyn Arends, Steve Bell

Two hundred and fifteen

Two hundred and fifteen

Indigenous children who can’t come home

Two hundred and fifteen

How many more missing?

Indigenous children who won’t come home

Why did it take so long?

Revealing this ancient wrong

When mothers cried through countless nights alone

The church and the government

Complicit in violence

How could such savagery stay unconfessed?

If there’s a God in heaven, you’ve been used again

To subjugate, assimilate, eradicate the other

We’re Christian and Canadian yet now ashamed of both

We weep with the indigenous and stand with all who mourn

Why did it take so long?

Revealing this ancient wrong

The elders spoke but we refused to hear

The church and the government

Complicit in violence

How could something so evil happen here?

Two hundred and fifteen

Two hundred and fifteen

Indigenous children stolen