PAD: Across the Sea

April is National Poetry Month. I’m celebrating with Writer’s Digest’s Poem a Day Challenge. Today’s direction is to write an across the sea poem.

 

Birthplace

I was born across the sea

inside a wall

that divided a war-weary city

Years later, they tore the wall down

and cheered

by then I was far away

Someday I would like to go back

to see what they built

in its place