A baby, emerging blinking into light
quietly trickling
blissfully unaware of destiny
Playing hide and seek
peeking from behind serious mountain curves
Laughter gurgling quietly
Seeking a path now
leaping like a gazelle caught in sunlight
sleeping, lazy and long
Crashing through rocky roads
Surprising with silvery cascades
Alluring, dimpling, beckoning with coolness
Roaring a froth of fury
Thunderous and shining
Plunging towards upheaval
A calm broadening
Giving and receiving
Conscious power wielded with grace
Tears and rage
flooding, overflowing,
forgiving in its wake
Then, blue veins break thin skin
gathering rich inheritance,
slowly, slowly,
till the gnarled hands gently vanish
into the blue forevers
