By Henri Farrell-Martin from Marymount Academy International (HS)
The Ocean
Always in motion
Sometimes problems pile on like constant waves
But I try to stay brave
Feeling lost
Like I’m in the middle of a body of water
Barely keeping my head above surface
Salt water reminiscing of a childhood spent at sea
I’d go back to at any cost
Now stuck in a situation that I cannot flee
Good times spent with my father
Now I’m in an endless water
Thinking things are too far from repair
Nothing is fair
Feeling like a foreigner in a country I call my own
Swimming in waters filled with clones
Disliked for being unique and expressing myself
In the world of the tall I am the elf
As I count my respirations
I relax among the commotion
I am deaf to the comments and opinions
The waves slowly break
The moment is near
I finally feel awake
The problems aren’t my fear
My mind is positive as I see land
Looking down at the colourful coral reef
Waves carrying me to shore as if they were a helping hand
Finally laying on sand in relief
Life is well
The tension has dissipated
Ears ringing like the sounds of church bells
The pain is part of being liberated
People rushing with fear to me but I don’t understand the yells
Lifting me up as if I were a soul rising
I never learned to swim
I pushed through to live with no grim
Now I rest eternally exhilarated.
