beginning

WORDS:
in the beginning

before water and land

there was light.

but submerged

     in the body of water

the coastline sleeps

river erodes with mangroves

and the sediment surrender.

and made us the debris

erasure

 of the past billows

and the shore recounts

before land and water

there was light

and the dawn

    prophesised.

fading

   fleeting

       forgetting

over the Black River;

     the sun now wades.

whip the back of the horizon

and watch the enslaved

drown

     drift

          die.

in the beginning

before water and land

there was light.

and made us the night.

but in the beginning

   before water and land

there was light.

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