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For this session we listened to the spoken word performance of the poem Forsaken Sea by Sekou Sundiata, posted below.

Our prompt for this session was: “We do not believe…”

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Forsaken Sea by Sekou Sundiata

            Always go in low tide, high tide comes
            Always go in low tide, high tide comes
 
We always go it seems, we always go to the ocean
We always go to the ocean at low tide
 
We could walk, we could walk deep 
We could walk deep into the sea and never be
     in over our heads
 
We do not believe, we do not believe, we do not believe that 
drowning is for us
 
High tide comes out of the water the same way
     for the last billion years.
There is nothing new
We know when to swim, and when to wait
We know when to swim, and when to wait

           The waves come in and go back out
           For the last billion years
          The ocean still emotional, singing in our ears

          Always go in, always go in low tide, high tide comes
         Always go in low tide, high tide comes

High tide comes out of the water the same way for the     
 last billion years. There is nothing new
 We know when to swim and when to wait
 
In the car, in the car the road 
In the car the road murmurs beneath the wheels     
The ocean, so emotional, in our ears

We seek without looking
The smallest token, passes and settles
 into what music is about, music is about
 
You could say
You could say we are dancing
And from this one thing we know 10 things
From this one thing we know 10 things
 
We always go in low tide when high tide comes
We always go to the ocean
We always go to the ocean at low tide

         We see without looking at the music the water makes
         We know when to swim and we know when to wait
         We always go in low tide, high tide comes
         Always go at low tide, high tide comes

We do not believe
We do not believe
We do not believe
That drowning is for us
 
High tide comes out of the water
The same way for the last billion years
 
Yes, you could say, you could say we are dancing
And from this one thing, we know 10 things
 
We always go in low tide
High tide comes