For countless years, or so it seems I have been frozen in some dream An icy cage to close me in These many days that I ve been sleeping Sleeping But now a warmer wind does blow And I begin to bend and flow I fall and something carries me Along and suddenly, I m leaving Leaving All I know is I m in motion Tossed and thrown, dropped and spun This is not slow, this is no ocean I m on a river run If I decide and time it right I can leap high and catch some light Or launch out off a rocky wall Where, all at once, I m free and falling Falling I hope no future, mourn no past When now is moving by so fast I am this motion I am in With every end, I am beginning Beginning All I know is I m in motion Tossed and thrown, dropped and spun This is not slow, this is no ocean I m on a river run I ve many seasons to my life A drop of water such as I But when the sea or sky, I ve earned I dream of rivers, and returning Returning