Awake

Awake for longer than forever

and since before eternity

my waking is the wave that froths and foams

Awake in hymns and the mailmen's passion

Awake in a house that will be destroyed

in a grave that machines will dig up:

My country is the wave that froths and foams

Awake so that the colonizers might leave

Awake so that people can sleep

"Everyone has to sleep sometime," they say

I am awake

and ready to die