Fluvial (Take Me To The River)

Life in us is like the water in a river. - Thoreau

Assabet River

born of innocence

capable of mayhem

a living, breathing shrine

yours and mine

gurgling truth

screaming reason

no matter the time or season

naked and innocent

blind but beneficent

baptizing me

chastising me

realizing me

linking me inextricably to the past

whether i stop at its edge to sit and think

or stoop way down low to bathe and drink

estuary of humanity's tears

keeper of eternity's years

soothsayer and almsgiver

in your wondrous meandering and presence i quiver

take me to the river

Author's Note

"If it's life you're after — real life, the history of life, the ebb of life, the flow of life — the river is the place." - Robert Thorson