Canada Day Reckoning Tanka Poem by Chen-ou Liu

'This Brave New World, ' XIV, on Canada Day (of reckoning)

red and white coloring
turns into a stream of orange
on Parliament Hill
the gray-haired Elders chanting
'every child matters'

FYI: L1 refers to the colors of the Canadian flag while 'orange' in L2 is the color of the protesters' shorts (FYI: Orange represents the color of the indigenous peoples in Canada because of Orange Shirt Day, also known as the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation)