What could you have done my courageous sparrow?
When the wind was against you,
the storm has uprooted the entire forest after all,
and the bushfire left almost nothing in the wilderness,
but everyone will remember your beak,
that did try to douse the flames with those droplets from the river
After the recent U.S. election, Gurpreet Singh wrote this for his wife, former B.C. education minister Rachna Singh. She was B.C.’s first parliamentary secretary for anti-racism initiatives. Gurpreet Singh is a B.C. broadcaster and the author of Why Mewa Singh Killed William Hopkinson: Revisiting the Murder of a Canadian Immigration Inspector. Follow Pancouver on Twitter @PancouverMedia and on Instagram @PancouverMedia.
