Remain the Sea - Anoushka Shankar, Vanessa Redgrave

Mother swallows golden sand

Whispers: She’s taking back what’s hers

Her feet are two split continents

Her heart is the map of the world

Lay with me though my storm, she says

He’s a moon to myself

I ask her:

But where does the heart go

When it’s taken from the motherland?

Unlike the sky

From?

I’m searching for a safe place

To empty

Mother crashes her body against the shore

Says: Pain is what we carry upon our backs

Love is being silent about the wake

The death of the motherland

Is not a?

she says

But in everything we forget

And you’re not so privileged

You are a child of fire and water

The strength to be the storm

And to carry it is within you

So storm, she says

And I will carry you?

The body is a continent

But may your heart

Always remain the sea