Looking For The Water

 

It’s a great day

At the beach,

Sun shining,

Just a touch of a breeze,

But there’s no water,

They filled it in

In the early sixties

And paved it over

For a parking lot

And a strip mall,

I can hear the call

Of the ghosts

Of an ancient

Indian woman,

Of an early settler,

Calling, calling,

Looking for their children

Looking for the water.

 

Stephen Nesbitt ©

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