My Safe Harbor

I run, I run as fast as I can. It's amazing how I can see them but they can't see me. I know this place better then them of course. I live here and have grown up here so I can hide myself from them. Now I can feel their presence, their getting closer and closer. All I want to do is be safe. I want to go to my safe harbor. There I can think freely, I can be myself, and in a time like this I can be safe. Then I finally reach my spot. I made it myself, when I was younger, so I can have a place to go. Also if I needed a place to flee to. I climb down the long wooden ladder and see my little stuffed doll in the corner my abuelita had made for me when she was alive years ago. Now I can hear the voices of men, they do not speak my language and they sound very strange. I am beggining to grow more frightened. I don't know what they plan to do if they catch me...

I can't recall what happened. I guess those men happened to stumble across my safe place. They must have known I went down there because that's the first place they looked. All I remember is that they struck me on the back of my head, and then my world went black. Now I am sitting here in this strange new place with a lot of other girls. They look scared and lost too. Some of the girls speak to each other and I don't understand them either. They sounded just like the strange men. All of a sudden whatever we are traveling in stops. Those very same men who hit me opened the door, my eyes adjusted to the light, and now I see a new strange world spread out before me.