A New Beginning

Floating down the river, where are we going Staring at the sunlight never knowing where our journey will take us with each ripple beneath Taking us still further through the leafy glade Azure promises we trade Shimmering waters lay still as waves gently ebb and flow Our thirst is quenched Our minds drenched The sun obscures our view our senses confused We reach the great expanse and the still becomes the storm Restless crashes against the rocks, rapidity to transform From the depth foaming white horses rise with secrets Incessant, unfathomable salty tears are cried A forgotten wreck striving upwards, we salvage what we can but the more we find the further we drift apart struggling against the turning tide We falter, spiraling downwards, plunging into darkness thoughts of what we used to share freezing in the iciness with each breathless gasp that intensifies our needs to seize the fraction of life that remains only recognized by our heart pains To sustain survival and renew In time the waters ebb and flow to cleanse and display A new beginning, a new part to play.