I can’t breathe,
As I take in water
My life flashes before my eyes.
I was free before this.
Brown skin
Soaking up the molten sun
On my native ground.
The waves make me sick.
The fear turns my stomach.
And so, we jump.
Better to decide our own fate
Than to go in chains,
Sold like goods
Bedded like animals.
If I am to be a creature
Let me be a sea turtle,
Or a siren.
Let me be the beacon
That ravages these ships
With my brethren.
Let them hear my call
To guide them underwater.
They will never be free
Of the ghost of me.
My sacrifice will haunt
These waters,
Spook these waves
Creating typhoons
And tsunamis
Until the end of time.
Let me be immortalized
In the sea foam.
Carve statutes of me
Forever etched in stone.
We will not be forgotten.
I can’t breathe
As I take on water.
But as I sink
I am free.
As I take my last breath
I am…eternal.
I belong to me.
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