Far away in the United States,
Working to save her children from their dangerous lives,
She feels the distance.
She misses her family.
She could not stand another Christmas or birthday apart.
She dries her tears.
She refuses to subject her children to the perilous journey.
Robbed by her smuggler,
Left without food for three days,
She was lucky.
Thousands of other mothers travel a more dangerous way.
On top of Mexico’s freight trains,
They call it “The Train of Death.”
Gregory Datto is a high school senior at The Tatnall School in Wilmington, DE. He lives in Glen Mills, PA. He is an avid swimmer and cyclist and aspires to study Biomedical Engineering next fall.