I look to the sea of white and try to find my place 
But waves crash past and push me further ashore 
I look to the land of brown trees and grounded bark, but I am not rooted here either 
I find solace in my mother but her pale skin sees me other to my sister 
I find sorrow in my fathers existence, and feel confusion over what these pigments mean that he has given me 
where do I belong here?
Stuck between the land and the sea
As age takes me further from either I seem to drift up and up and up and up and up and out of space and to the darkness 
where no one speaks  
I look around and see another floating past 
And another
And another 
Another whose belonging is unfound
Can’t trace the place they’ve browned from
blind to the trees that bound them
deaf to the waves that drown them
Confounded in our own surroundings 
We live amongst the in-between 
Martyred in the grey that we are gowned with 
My brothers, sisters, siblings 
Speechless in impounded confusion 
Silent in undefined harmonies 
We don’t say a word