A Memorial For Robert Dziekanski

by Susan Mugridge
Oct/Nov 2007

 

He came to land

In Canada

A land of promise

Yet on threshold he died

Lamented.

Where were the myriads,

Officials, passers by,

Those of Polish speech

To give him comfort?

He alone, for hours and hours

Pacing, weary, friendless;

His mother requesting, searching

But unsatisfied.

“He is not here,” she is told,

“Go home.”

She drove to find a ‘note’:

“Pick up your relative.

He is found.”

She returned to find

He had died.