The River Flows Deep (a poem)
The river she flows deep tonight, her banks are overrun, washing away the heaviness, collapsing ’neath the flood.
The river she flows deep tonight, her banks are overrun, washing away the heaviness, collapsing ’neath the flood.
i am the words i speak, i’m the things i do, i’m not how i look, or the things i accrue. you try to define me with the simplest of words but i’m far beyond that, though you think it absurd.
Give thanks. Give attention, acceptance, kindness. Give of your heart. Give comfort. Give peace, joy, happiness. Give of your soul.
Some of my ancestors crossed an ocean to live in a land they had never seen. Some lived out their entire lives in one place, never venturing outside of their village, never seeing an ocean.
An hour lasts forever.
A lifetime’s just a blink.
The time it takes to get there
is never what you think.
I’m falling apart, and a part of me is falling, falling to the ground below.
Sometimes, it feels quite personal,
an attack directed at me.
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