Down river,

Friends drift with hollow hearts

For the open sea

As the months roll forward

Shedding glimmers of life

~

While I’m stalled in the rapids

Left frozen in horror

By the love bled away for the surging horizon

~

When I’ve finally collapsed

To the river’s cold wrath

I’ll rejoin their mad laughter

In an endless summer

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Quieted within

Afloat in still waters

Fast asleep

In the shelter of a far away dream