Foreign patterns embedded in native lands

Curving roads cut through stories untold

Ground up mountain with the sweat of slaves

Sliced through ancient sea creatures

Leave hungry the children of those who starved

Leave homeless the nurturing jumbie

Cutting with the grain reveals the loss

Cutting against is all too real

The secrets of the depth

The strength of the sea

Twisting, turning until we can’t see

The truth once hidden in the walls

Now on display for all to see