Distant Sands - C Sonnen

[Lawrence Robinson]

Distant Sands
 
Lines in the sand are crossed 
all the time, often unknowingly 
by the feet of mothers 
dreaming a hungry child to safety.
The crossing is anything
but safe when cages and cheap
uniforms tend the lines.
On this unholy night, no wise men
journey the desert 
seeing the child to safety.
Do you know where your lines
are written; on what faraway 
shore or desert do they fall?
And by whose hand are the warnings
etched in the grains of yesterday’s
mountains that once stood tall
but now blow in the wind?
Will you admit that the weather
means more than the crossing 
of borders so quickly chosen
by minds wanting for distance?
Such fences fall when the silence 
is broken and truth is spoken 
for a world where no one 
crosses lines that never existed,
letting sand and hearts 
once again, do as they will.
 
	- C Sonnen 
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