Makeen Yasar
Equity, Inclusion, & Diversity Coordinator, Kaiser Permanente School of Medicine
when you think you’re alone
find comfort where the light don’t touch
in the shroud of dusk and royal skies
where the sun’s head is laid to rest
and you can sit in the sand with the dark’s good company
she tells me I am safe here, at least for awhile
and to mind the visitors that she has called to the shoreline
to look for my kinfolk who tread across sand underneath the dock
silver braids on ivory skin fall past a grey dress, parted by her lover’s arms
waves sit atop his head like the waters
behind them, a boy’s Afro puff can be seen
held tightly by a band of brothers who lumber through the grain
as a procession of bikers pass through like azure streaks
their skin flashes bronze over dusty cement
this is the comfort we find by the pacific
this beach has become sanctuary in the years since we’ve came
and in the shroud of dusk and royal skies
we are family
as we sit here in the arms of night
connected by a thread
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