Ice on rocks in river
The water lures me as it has so many times before
The sweet smell and song dancing down the mountainside
Standing beside its emotionless banks
Which have been cut and carved from this unending course
Watch as the water begins to freeze
Winter begins to take charge of her course
Secrets and sounds will soon be still for the season
The long white expanse will be laid out before us
I loose myself in the last of this frigid rushing
The open stream surging over rocks worn smooth with time
Numb and callous with no voice of their own
Shaped by the eternal flow
Enjoy the sound and motion while we still can
A white noise louder than the clatter rolling around in my mind
I lean over and dip in my hand
Submerge the whiteness of my flesh just beneath the slick surface
Within seconds it turns red and throbbing
The river is stronger than I am
Will ever be
And you think of how many spend a lifetime
To subdue control alter and own
That which is mightier than you or I will ever be