Posted on June 8, 2024  — 

Land and Sky Ours

This very land that I sit upon,
Drove me to an edge one day.
I wanted to fish for freedom,
But they broke my dragnet.


So I brought a bigger net,
For an even bigger freedom.


Look at us,
Content with this quiet disorder.
Land and sky ours,
Unclaimed and soon to forgotten.


“This very land I call my own,
It has bled a hundred times over”,
Said my father’s father, whose mother’s
Father had taught him how to fish
For freedom and more freedom.

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