Our Streets
Joy Johnson reflects on the recent tragic death of Sarah Everard and on the campaign to end violence against women and girls
Reading time: 2 min
She was just walking home.
It wasn?t even late.
Why couldn?t she have been left alone?
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Our streets should be ours to own
yet steps quicken our beating hearts.
She was just walking home.
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With flowers for a vigil and a sombre tone
women gathered to pay their respects.
Why couldn?t she have been left alone?
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Face masked. ?To the ground she was thrown.
Handcuffed. ?Her Respect had turned to her arrest.
She was just walking home.
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Keys in hand. Clutch a phone.
Our streets should be ours.
She was just walking home.
She should have been left alone
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?By Joy Johnson
