ANOUCHEKA GANGABISSOON
Open your eyes,
Whispered the island,
As she unveiled herself
Giving us all, for the first time ever,
A show of her splendid beauty!
Open your eyes,
And see me
See the bold eagle that I am
While being, at the same time,
The shivering dove!
See the builder that I am
See how I have shaped you
See how I have helped you
In helping me
Be what I am today!
See the rolling waves that make me
See how I allow you, time and again
To try to conquer me
As if,
You were one of the world’s best surfers!
See the music and the notes that make me
See how melodious I am
See how you melt easily in these
See how your heart plummets while listening to these
As they bid to write poems and odes
As you act out scenarios on love and its being!
See the progress that I have achieved
See how connected you are to the rest of the world
How free you do feel,
Swirling,
As a drunken maiden, lost in love,
In between the fumes of your beloved’s gaze!
Why, do open your eyes, please do,
Open them and allow yourself
To be that which you deem me to be
I am, after all, your motherland
And the connection between us
Is as strong as that which lies between
A mother and her child!
So, do open your eyes
And relish of that which makes me
What I am!