Liquid Moods

Liquid Moods A river lives in many moods. Serenely flowing, it paints a peaceful oil Of powerful tranquility. It’s strength is hidden within it’s flow And life is sustained within it’s course. When dancing, happily over riffles, rocks and shoals It sings songs of enthusiastic happiness. Like first love it excites, then wanes. The dancing songs become mundane. When roaring through gorges, ledges, and falls It screams of enthusiastic abandon. Senses are heightened and anxiously purified Life and death are one, and become alive. A river, it’s liquid moods , wet the flow of life. Peacefully flowing, with strength in tranquility A place where most of us are. A happy riffle, an occasional shoal Waters a normal life. But a few, a very few, once in a while, Love the gorges, ledges and falls And crave the roaring, screaming life and death To make everything else worth while.