Millard Lowe Poet Free verse

Like a Tree Planted By the Waters

LIKE A TREE PLANTED BY THE WATERS


Though stolen, I never left you: remaining
     Like a keloid
Etched across your healing womb.

The umbilical flow of a river never
     Empties itself of its source.
Thus I wade backwards to the genesis
     Of my being;
And grow like a tree planted by the waters:
     And I shall not be moved.
From my Nile and Gold Coast waters beginnings
     I shall not be moved.

From my blackness, I can no longer be
     Sold.
From my blackness, I can no longer be
     Cajoled. 
From my blackness, I can no longer be
     Ostracized.
From my blackness, I can no longer be
     Comprised.

My sable Sahara soul is indelibly free
     As I want to be.
Like God, Africa is, and I am, like a tree planted
     By the waters:
     And I shall not be moved.

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