Life

Oh how we we all flow towards ..........

 Life is like a river flowing

As it matures it changes its course

Sometimes its surface is violated, by the wind blowing

Sometimes its waters run placidly, sometimes with great force

What can be discerned on the surface may appear gentle and smooth

Or expose the disturbances, of white demons fighting, boiling and clashing

But unless you look deeper, you will not perceive how the turbulent under-currents move

Dare you take a step and enter, experience the inner movements that cause the external splashing

 

From nothing more than a thin whisper of flowing

Produced from the precipitations, of uprooted waters

The accumulations of stranded droplets, slipping, dripping, nurtures the growing

From a slippery silver slip, to a stream that never falters

And from your surroundings you gather the flows from other tributaries

Giving up their trickling thoughts into your desire to increase and grow

As your pathway erodes and etches, you feed on their capillaries

From the initial charge down hillsides steep, the rush of your waters slow

 

As the substance of your churning, twisting, frothing and flowing increases in volume

The course you have chosen may meet a sudden fall

The gentle ebbing and rippling accelerates to a plume

Stirring and mixing the very substance of everything you call, all

And as you progress there are obstacles you must negotiate

The way is not clear and your flow will have to be converse

But eventually your life’s flowing waters will hesitate

As all your currents and eddies are washed out to   sea      and           disperse………….

 

  

Author's Note

Just letting my mind flow like a river, so helpful sometimes

Reviews

[Extant]

Thoughtful rhymes, indeed. Though, I haven't quite decided if a I like it. . .

[hogan]

not sure if I do, there is a break in the rhythm, intended to mimic the chaos of a river, but it breaks the flow of the read, like a sharp bend or sudden fall might do in a river, or life. The idea is there , but not sure it worked.

[Extant]

Hmm, I can understand the idea. But I would agree that it doesn't work as planned.