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.
Copyright © Millard Lowe | Year Posted 2015
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