"I have a secret....I danced all night! "

Down in the groove of many palms

 There I awoke in a total perplex state 

The night was so cold and the roaring sea I could hear 

Splashing its mighty wings of waves against the surrounding shields of cliffs

Though the ambiance was all frightening but I felt unusually calm

I starred vaguely into the starlit sky 

With my thoughts wandering into the deeps of the heavens

Although the night as cold but I felt warm

Quiet unusual but I felt at peace.

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The palms were swaying gently in the breeze 

And dancing gracefully to the whispers of the sea and the rhythm of the night

Enchanted by the beautiful face of the moon and casting their royal reflections into the ever smiling silver toned waters

I drank the vision into my soul and felt lightheaded

I rejoiced and laughed heartily like no one in trouble

But indistinctly underneath the whispers of the night

A sound reached into my hearing 

A sound so full of life and merry

And it sounded like it was coming from deep down in the sea

I sprang up on my feet and raced towards the merry sound

I ran unwittingly and joyful for a reason I knew not

Then I ran into the midst of beauties that looked like none I’d seen before

Flawless skins, so fair they looked that I almost saw through them

So graceful was their dance that I almost swooned with emotions welling up in me

There they held me up and their hypnotizing smiles brought me back to my feet

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I immediately joined in their spirited dance ad I felt like I had never felt 

My eyes turned in my head like a long dead drunk

We danced and danced till the day broke 

And the flawless ones were ready to go away

But I was ready to go with them

I followed like a dog wagging my imaginary tail of excitement

I was walking into the sea!

Yet I felt no fear as the reassuring smiles never left the faces of the flawless ones

One after the other they disappeared into the deep blue sea and then it was my turn 

When I suddenly I felt a pull on my shoulder 

I jerked and tried to let go of myself

Then I turned to look back and only to wake up at the edge of my bed with my lover trying to shake me out my sleep 

My mouth tasted sour of the old wine I had the previous night 

And my whole body ached like I truly danced 

I looked up and smiled at my lover, I knew I had a secret

For I danced all night with sea beauties!

Through the storms

The absolute weariness I see on their faces

Tired and worn of waiting and longing to reach the coast of liberation

Their silence speaks of nothing but of fading hope

Each with the oar of desperation, rowing through the sea of despair and fear

And each with the fear that only the strong would reach the lands.

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Sailing through the rough sea of life

Braving the never calm, unruly sea which has swallowed many

Bragging with a gut made mighty with the strength of the bold and the weakness of the feeble that found abode down in its deeps.

And ever ready to wrap its hands of many waves around those that loses their grip on perseverance.

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The journey we started in high spirit 

And through the many nights we rowed and toiled

Through the blazing heat of the day and the chilling fangs of the night

Each day passed with our strength slipping out of the reach of our use

Each day we await the shout for land ahead

But too many times, mirage became the usual and our imaginations became like reality

Water to the left and water to the right.

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But a morning came, after so many nights of turmoil and pains

The daybreak of liberation broke its way to our rescue 

Land we sighted far ahead 

And with the last of our strength we rowed and rowed 

And at last we reached the shore and rested our dying feet

We have arrived the land of our destiny, where our ordeals shall be forgotten  

And our pains shall be told in stories for all to learn and to give hope for the yet to arrive.