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
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