No Weapons Found
Black and blue figures burst in
Guns ready to blast
Tear apart my brother’s room
and home
Whirlwind of chaos and trauma
Yet
No Weapons Found
They killed my brother
Truth may never be known
We are Muslims
and
We are Black
That is our crime
Even though
No Weapons Found
(c) Hedy Tripp January, 2020
Hedy Tripp was born in 1948 in Singapore. In her work she discusses early life in Singapore, family history, going to school in Singapore, getting married and divorced, coming to the United States, getting remarried in the United States, moving to Saint Cloud, Minnesota. worries about racism in Saint Cloud, teaching, comparing the educational systems in the United States and Singapore, working for groups such as the National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum , having breast cancer, and calling Minnesota home.