Textbook Trauma

They say history is written by the victors, 

but her story is told over cups of chai
flavored with cultural appropriation 
and garnished with coconut shavings. 
It's told with wide eyed animation and
through the invisible scars of abuse, 
captured in a textbook nestled in 
trembling hands ... the ones they 
forced her to use to wrap it all up
in crumpled brown paper bags and bows.