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Swim Until You Can’t See Land
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Benjamin Francis Leftwich
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We salute at the threshold Of the North Sea in my mind And I nod to the boredom That drove me here to face the tide And swim, swim, swim Dip a toe in the ocean Oh how it hardens and it numbs And the rest of me is a version of man Built to collapse into crumbs And if I hadn't come down To the coast to disappear I may have died in a landslide Of the rocks and hopes and fears Oh, swim until you can't see land Swim until you can't see land Swim until you can't see land Are you a man or a bag of sand? Up to my knees now Do I wade? Do I dive? The sea has seen my like before Though it's my first and perhaps last time Let's call me a baptist Call this a drowning of the past She is there on the shoreline Throwing stones at my back Oh, swim until you can't see land Swim until you can't see land Swim until you can't see land Are you a man or a bag of sand? Now the water is taller than me And the land is a marker line All I am is a body Adrift in water, salt and sky Oh, swim until you can't see land Swim until you can't see land Swim until you can't see land Are you a man or a bag of sand? Swim until you can't see land Swim until you can't see land Swim until you can't see land Are you a man or a bag of sand?
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