Langston Hughes, "Return to Sea" (1927)
Langston Hughes
Today I go back to the sea
And the wind-beaten rise of the foam.
Today I go back to the sea—
And it’s just as though I were home.
It’s just as though I were home again
On this ship of iron and steam,
And it’s just as though I have found again
The broken edge of a dream.
Published in Black Opals, Spring 1927