River Shoal

RIVER SHOAL I feel the cold river on the toes of my soul I’m dreaming of my pot of gold in a future yet untold I gaze up the river to where branches caress memories old all the while my soul seeps into the water’s of River Shoal I leave my body heaped thus and swim away like a great fish I follow the unassailable current down, away in bliss what of all I left behind, is there anything at all to equal this? There should be so many things I would dearly miss During these spare moments I continue like a ghost observed between the earth and the moon and everything seen but this future is like a great broom that dooms my dream and the past merely the needle and thread that holds me together you see My journey ventures down river only for a time I journey back up these water’s in search to find Answers to my past that clash with my future and mind There are so many questions I have but my recollections are like rhymes You see it is my hope to find a part of me deep in the damp canyons echoing with forgotten memories but it seems I can no longer ignore the looming darkness that bleeds Today I come to heal the heart and soul of me from a past that breaths My ether soon shudders, feeling the cold slowly creep I lay immersed at the bottom of these dark waters covered in stones and weep My memories press persistently, soon must come my defeat Cause everything that you hope you could hold dear is something the river can keep Knowingly there comes change, romancing the past has a cost My memories remember me like a broiling sea, up from the bottom they churn and toss I glare up through these clear cobalt waters, breath in a cleansing spirit of trust With life there is a future we must all embrace for otherwise we are all lost One day I will pass into this river and flow to the heart of the ocean where all are delivered in tow into the life blood of Mother Earth we each must row but today I seek a different road, my path leads to a future a place I must go So in the throws of life, my body is refilled with soul and like a child born crying and screaming, I awaken a newborn foal Life is magical and living isn't a toll I have found myself it seems on the shores of River Shoal