Poem: The Sea

The Sea

The sea and all it contains mingle the memories of generations.

The laughing of children

on the shore, digging sand before the

water comes

To the calls of the sailors

"There's land ahead!"

Keep those sails aloft Here's the wind Moving us...taking us away. Far from these thoughts Far from these ways into a whole other life.

Where dreams come true

and men are brave

and women move the world

making room for

The children.

The children of the waves.

Greetings, many greetings

From countries on the east, on the west

to the north, from the south.

They gather. They speak with one voice:

There's the sea. the beautiful sea.

Nothing's stopping us.

We are who we are

Because of the ocean.

It washes us.

We are cleansed from its washing,

the sand around our feet

pulls away with the tide.