April 6, 2019

Prompt - After _______

After All

After the airplane landed we watched
the Indian Agents with their lists go
walking to the village, and we sent
our children to hide down by the lake
where the young saplings grow thick
saying, “do not come back until it is
dark, after these men have left.”  We
saw our children go instead to the dock
where sweets were handed out and
children who were good could fly
like an eagle In an airplane and after, 
come back home for dinner.
It was silent in the village after the
children left, and after that, there was
nothing after all.