We Connect as Ocean
Our unknown, grounded in the smudge of blurred identities.
Questions of displacement, injustice and accents, clouded over us in grey complexities.
The shadows casted on us by our neighbours inked out our originality, the alien nation whited out our peculiarity.
We couldn’t leave it up to the men who split our borders and saw this as law and order,
So we sought out for something we had in common, we looked to water.
We resonated with the rivers, their individuality,
So we surged alongside the Nile, the Congo, the Niger, the Volta.
In hope they would lead us to a place that was an accurate reflection of ourselves.
We resonated with the tides, the need to retreat in the scorching heat
But still find it within us to rise in our darkest hours.
Through turbulent torrents and rampant rapids,
We never found a turf we could call home,
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But we realised, our paths had already formed for us a new utopia.
A haven where our tidewater would serve as nourishment for our kin.
Where we could freely wash our souls,
Mudded by the permanent dark makeup living on the land made us wear.
Our ancestors, here, forcefully found immobility,
Now their spirits look beyond the same waves and find fluidity.
All tones, light and dark alike, flooded into each other with wells of experience, emotion and energy.
We learnt the value of every drop, our sound would never be dried or drowned since we would never forget its source,
Our resource is the synergy of seas, we can now build dams and reservoirs.
Be influenced by the confluence created by our connection,
Bountiful and in boundless abundance beyond any horizon.
We resonate deeply with the ocean.
~We Connect as Ocean. An oeuvre by Saros Grey
