Monday, September 1, 2008

poem for the river II

i am an earth sign.
stable,
more practical than i like to admit.
you cut through me like water.

persistent, gentle, powerful
natural.
fully unaware that you
are changing me.

smoothing my rough places
soothing
and moistening
where i was parched.
carrying pieces of me away
and changing my shape.
making me softer
so that you are harder
to resist.

and i allow it
because i have no choice.
and it feels so good.
the ease,
the helplessness of it all.
a force of nature that overtakes my own.
i want to be carried away on your current
because it feels like living.

even though i know the truth.

that one day
you will deposit me on a strange bank
and keep flowing.
fully unaware
that you have moved me.

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