I wrote an original poem about the TTI and not one specific program but commonalities they share, I hope it makes you all feel seen 🩷🫂 its not very good but I wanted to share Comments or criticism?

Kids Souls Died Here- By : Cait W

They sold our souls to our captors

When gratefully they signed

Packed up our bags and

Ripped us from our lives

We ,the Forgotten

Sentenced here, oh we cried

for our pets

and our friends

and our things left behind

Nothing made sense

Our failures contrived

Everyday was the same

Like little Soldiers we'd rise

Group was a firing squad

You couldn't be revived

Staff had your secrets

Ready to be vilified

We did what we could

To keep spirits high

Yet our self esteem shriveled

Worthless in our own eyes

Still we hoped for the day

Someone noticed

Asked why

They had us held down

Just for looking outside

It didn't matter what we said

What we did or what we tried

Not matter the reason

Consequences multiplied

Be mean to your peers

It helps them, they lied

Buy your freedom

The cost,

Your hearts flayed and fried

Once home we were scared

Of every noise

In the night

Thoughts of being sent again

still burned

In our minds

Carefully we constructed

The walls to survive

While the silence

And trauma

Ate us alive

We should live

for those kids

the ones we used to be

Those that died

In the TTI

Where they abandoned

You and me