Sunday, July 31, 2022

A RIVER SPEAKS

I looked up and saw before me -
a vast, tumultuous, frothing sea.
Fear crept in me, alone was I -
Can't return however hard I may try.

I mustered courage, clumsy is my flow -
I came from the peaks, onward I must go.
Infancy, childhood all in my past -
Wide arms of the sea in view at last.

I know this as I in fear shiver -
That I no long will remain a river.
I say to myself, "This is all I know -
It's just my fright and I've to let it go."

I moved on, my steps leaving no trace -
In gurgling rage I found a mother's embrace.
I felt as I went for ever to the sea -
That I was a river and always will be.


Prasenjit©2022

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