You and I

It's not the same again since the sea intervened There is so much water between us And all this shuffling of papers will that prove hope For I am a man and men alone know hope, some say But what I must become Will not be determined again by the boundary I must cross So your anxiety that I bring job letters Land titles, and all the instruments of your civilization That I may cross your barbed wires Does not walk carefully in the minefield of memory. Your history and my memory are forever at war I do understand how you stole my land from me But I cannot understand how you own the sea