A Country's Conscience

Tributaries of thought become rivers
which run deep...and slowly;
rapid...and passionately,
until their confluence becomes
one infinitely miscible flow
--dynamic, yet less mercurial,
because their width and depth
are too immense to easily
           dilute
Copyright © | Year Posted 2020

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June 2, 2020 at 9:37 AM
Wonderful write Craig, full of meaning, your metaphor is so apropos, stream to river to rushing torrent, the protests are getting stronger by the day!
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