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?
Our streets should be ours to own
yet steps quicken our beating hearts.
She was just walking home.
With flowers for a vigil and a sombre tone
women gathered to pay their respects.
Why couldn’t she have been left alone?
Face masked. To the ground she was thrown.
Handcuffed. Her Respect had turned to her arrest.
She was just walking home.
Keys in hand. Clutch a phone.
Our streets should be ours.
She was just walking home.
She should have been left alone
By Joy Johnson
