What the Water Keeps

Blowing down your back,

Is the wind I'm breathing.

Running down your pathways

Are the sighs I'm leaving.

Make me call for mercy,

Make me scream for air.

Teach me all your secrets

Into shades of torrid dares.

Call me to answer you now

And linger deep in your sway.

Lead me to the river,

Tell me deeply, come play.

Lay me beneath your thunder,

Where restless currents rise.

Hold me in your silence

And drown me in your eyes.

Pull me farther inward,

Past the edges we both know.

Till every guarded part of me

Is willing to let go.

Then leave your fire upon me,

Like dusk upon the sea.

So when the river calls again,

It still returns to me.

-Rivers

-Wander