Tuesday, July 16, 2024

River

Can I love a river flowing
when it turns into a stream
or merges with the ocean
and carries away my dreams

Is love ever stagnant?
and if it were would it grow green
fill with frogs and algae
and become a different thing?

Yet, what about the motion, 
how it trickles then it grows
then it merges into another
will it lose me in the flow?

How can I follow with it?
How can I stay behind?
How can I change the right way?
Without losing my mind...

And what if I love the forest, 
that the river circles through
and get lost in the open
once the ocean water blooms?

Can I swim back upstream
the wrong way?
Can I fight the current flow?
Oh, hell, the progress
damn if it isn't slow.