i finally found the thing i've been looking for
searching for, for years
i finally found it on an island out east
and there it tasted just as i'd imagined it would
rich chocolate, delicious and sweet
where i couldn't smell the difference in the air
but i could feel it on my skin
where i found myself in that rich red dirt
where it fades to soft amber sand
where it fades to an endless horizon of steely blue
and when i found it again here
at home, in the gray world
of tall glass buildings and honking cars
and the gasoline i can smell
it doesn't quite taste the same here, no
synthetic sugar, not quite right
not like it did on that island out east
with the rolling hills and the deep green trees
and the goats and the cows and the potato fields
ah, that's home, that's where i'm from
if not me then my family
and my family's family
l'nuk, on the mi'kma'ki
prince edward island/epekwitk by laika wallace
