Land and Sea
The land belongs to the sea and the sea belongs to thee
The way I figure it is our ancestors came from the sea
Sure they were lizards, fat lazy old lizards but before they
walked about pushing trees over or fighting it out
smashing exoskeleton against exskeleton
- bits broke off and dust clouded our view - they emerged from the deep
The land belongs to the sea as it grew out of
it
borne out of itself
before the land
was water - water
water everywhere you looked
who is to say when land
first appeared and the first creature
staked a claim to it
sought to dominate by saying it
belonged to it
the land belongs to the sea
and the sea, it belongs to thee
Now is the King of the Land holed up in his fortress
immune to the odd attack?
As his defenses were extreme
the army in his pay laid everything to waste
they wanted to kill murder and rape
they were rewarded with titles and slaves
and claimed that land
but it already belonged to the place.
They would only be conquered
by the King of the Sea.
Thinking their towers of stone
were held together fast with hard mud
thinking the army held it together
by titular examples of valour (by thugs)
thinking their actions
would provide villages for children
to watch them poisoned by drugs
that army marched over the daisies
crushed them like ice
with hammers
so the old man staggers
and waves a stick at the passing cloud
it was once his land but now it’s ours
as the march of his money is counted
that army devours the flowers
it was enough
the waves swallowing him
he holds the stick over his head
unharmed certain of death in her tender arms
the land belongs to the sea
and the sea
it belongs to thee