Island — Langston Hughes

Written By Anastasia Zankowsky

Wave of sorrow,
Do not drown me now:

I see the island
Still ahead somehow.

I see the island
And its sands are fair:

Wave of sorrow,
Take me there.

 
Anastasia Zankowsky
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