If I were the river

Saturday Poem

If I were the river…

I would travel the world without leaving my bed.

I would dance in stillness.

I would drink the tears of the sky

and prepare with them a great gumbo to feed it…

that will take the sadness away!

I would change colors without changing dresses.

If I were the river…

I would be free.

I would be infinite, becoming the ocean, the sky, the universe…

I would be ever-changing and unwavering.

And now

As I look at the river,

I realize how much like the river I am.

I realize that I am free.

Infinite.

Ever-changing and unchangeable.

Thank you, River Mother,

for the mirror.

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Maria Mar(c)2014

New York, NY

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