The Sea of Blue and Grey

Oh how I long to see my motherland, how far we have travelled across this ocean of grey and blue across countless seas my mind thinks of you.

To distant places now I find myself but oh how I long for your company, my motherland so far from me.

To distant places where only imagination can describe until we see it for the first time, this place is now so far away in mind.

Oh how I've missed our familiar shores across this ocean of blue and grey. I long to see you again when all this journey has come to an end.

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This poem was inspired through workshops delivered by curator Trisha McCauley’s ‘Hidden Sailors: Places and Spaces’ project for Bridging Histories supported by the Mayor of London.