I Am the River

I Am The River… I am the river; poured out of God’s celestial pitcher: a full river; swollen with His tears. I am the river; my banks hold the flow of a nation: denied, crucified, died, resurrected and sanctified. I am the river; my tributaries flow wide and deep— outward, inward, upward, downward and back to the source. I am the river; The flowing essence Of a mother’s womb—come Wade in my history And let the wetness of ourstory bathe away all your delusions. I am the river; the river of your birth: come and swim in me.