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A Fisherman's Tale...

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Lowering my boat into running waters

I paddled out to sea. Midway the horizon

I anchored—A fisherman of memory.

I once more baited my mind’s fishing line

with pages of ancestral truths:  then

waited the reeling in of ghost voices of mine.

 

At sunset—mental basket full,

I oared back to shore with my catch

and built a fire and gathered

the children to savor the pull

and share the day’s hefty batch…

 

Beneath the glowing moonlight

excited orbs reflected the desires

of the fire of knowledge

as we sat and sang songs

praising ancestral fishermen’s plight

of great African empires…

 

Beneath the glowing moonlight

we sat and sang songs

praising those ancestral fishermen

of the transatlantic journey’s wrongs…

 

Beneath the glowing moonlight

we sat and sang songs through the night,

praising those ancestral fishermen

on the wrinkle waters of injustice’s sin…

 

Tomorrow I shall again launch out in my boat;

paddle out into the sea of running waters:

baiting my mind’s fishing line with wiggling hope afloat,

my soul’s spirit strengthened by those of my forefathers.

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