About the Author:
C Hottran was born in 1975 in Kristiansund, a town on the northwest coast of Norway. She was raised by her grandmother till the age of 9 and then in 1984 she reunited with her mother in Oslo. In 1988 C and her family immigrated to the United States of America. But her family wasn't granted permanent residence status to stay, so they returned to Norway only one year later. In 1989 she attended a boarding school, where she lived for three years. And already at the age of seventeen she was living on her own. In 1994 she met a man who later became her husband, she gave birth to the couple's daughter in January of 2001 and after eight years of marriage she divorced in the beginning of 2003. Today she still lives with her daughter in Oslo.

Poetry by Cathrine Hottran

A Child's Destiny

Another bomb has landed,
Politicians control the Butcher's knife,
Again they've destroyed
A precious and innocent life.

They slaughter in thousands,
Showing no signs of regret,
Claiming to have terminated
Another terrorist's threat.

Left behind is a little child,
So scared and all alone,
Too young to understand
What happened to his home.

Crying out for mama,
Longing for her warm embrace,
But no matter where he turns,
He can't find that familiar face.

--C Hottran

Copyright © 2006 by C Hottran
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