Poem for Salamasina
Tagaloa Lagi lights Samoana skies
as doves dance Horizon's Sun
welcoming the dawn
another Samoana day begun
my babies are by the ocean
waking in blue lalomanu bay
giggles and laughter
broken by the roar
Of Tagaloa Toa
Piercing samoana skies
Manu Samoa silenced by rumbling Tagaloa
Where’s all the water?!
The blue beauty of ocean gone
All I see is reef
All I see is sky
but why?
Better take the babies back
but then in seconds flat
Ocean shows its might
Ocean shows its power
Ocean crosses the line
trespassing land
Crashing shores, this is war
I’m wondering, rushing, searching
“Did we trespass the sky??”
My babies were in the water
My babies I can’t hear you cry
Rage and shock muffled
by swallowing, drowning tides
this can’t be happening
please - they’re still alive
Fighting through the power hoping
They made it to the hills behind
Ocean hands pulling
scratching sketching divides
in the sand, all over land
I’m fighting water/fear/trees/debris/fatigue
Fighting to find my babies
Who were playing on the beach
Now there’s ocean choking seas choking
Me Ocean Babies
Babies Ocean Me
The Ocean took my babies
Instead of taking me
So I find myself thinking, wondering over and over again
I was fighting water/fear/trees/debris/fatigue
Fighting to find my babies
Who were playing on the beach
There was ocean choking seas choking
Me Ocean Babies
Babies Ocean Me
Oh the hands of water
Still I can’t believe
That the Ocean chose to take them
Instead of taking me
..the Ocean chose to take them..
Instead of taking…me
And now, we remember you Ocean
And we remember you Sky
And we remember you my children
Returned to Tagaloa
And as Tagaloa Lagi
lights up Samoana skies
I see them now through the clouds
doves dancing on Horizon's sun
baby angels of the ocean
welcome another Samoana dawn
