This other ocean

Not king-made
but king-envisioned,
speaks of eyes 
that drew from contour
drew for lay-of-land
and lay-of-life
that saw land that would grain
people who would sow 
and reap
from century to century
and today we stand
on history’s shores
and are stilled by the blues
and so standing draw
from the tap root 
of heritage
resolution and magnitude
humility and pride
as we cross the hour-to-hour
in the vessels of choice
and fashion a next moment
as wholesome, as tender.

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