To L Pod From A Human Poem by Amelie Ison

After years of pain and torment from your emotional scars,
You have finally reclaimed what was lost from you.
This place, that you once called home, now has a chance to heal;
To remove from its memory (stored in the ebb and flow of the tide)
A painful past that has never been forgotten—
The day your family and security was taken from you
By those who thought they had an authority greater than yours.
Now, with your proud and rightful return,
Despite the wounds that shall never heal, for you will never forget;
You grant your forgiveness which we have sought so hard to earn.
But your lack of memory is not what we seek—
We seek only the reassurance of you knowing where you belong.
Your power and finesse calls for our respect: for you, we'd give it all.