The Land of Broken Promises

<p><strong>She didn't cross borders chasing freedom.</strong><br>She crossed them because staying meant being erased.</p><p>María gave birth in silence-twice.<br>No hand to hold. No voice to guide her.<br>Just breath pain and the promise that her sons would never inherit her silence.</p><p>From the cold shed where no one came<br>to the interview that stripped her name from every right<br>this is not a story of leaving.<br>It's a story of being taken.<br>Of staying too long.<br>Of fighting harder than anyone ever saw.</p><p><em>The Land of Broken Promises</em> isn't a memoir.<br>It's a reckoning-for every undocumented breath that dared to survive the system. She never asked to be remembered.<br>It's what happens when a system calls your life illegal.<br>She just refused to be forgotten.</p>