Water

My people came over the water

Over a sea salted with sorrow

Some people drowned in their sorrow

But my people let the sea carry them

My people came over by water

My people lived by a river

Big and wide and winding to the sea

Sluggish with the weight of the world

Their hopes took root by the river

Some blooms bled into the water

Blood of my people flows

Through that river

To the sea

Meeting old sorrows

My people’s blood flows in the water

 

My people settled by a lake

Wide as the sea 

They wintered there 

Shivering in the wind

Swallowing the taste of salt

Planting dreams

Surviving storms

My people came through the water

Carrying salt

Carrying sorrows

Carrying the sea

My people came over the water