Drifting through the channels
Many ages gone
Ode to the countless
Lives within me
In a dream I was a river
Listless and Strong
Proud in my path
For here I belong
At first I was a witness
Beholding all that lives
Between us, indifference
All that there is
Filled with the youth
To witness it all
From the grays of winters frost
To the colors of another fall
Thriving life on the river banks
Cities growing tall
To me their life did not seem
Important at all.
My life sprang forth from the Mountains
The roots gave way to my birth
Stretching forth, reaching out
Bringing life to the earth
In my glory I ruled the land
Without a care or fear
Born to give, born to take
Born with soul purpose
The cycle of life and death
Upon me made no mark
While the rest around me broke
Fading with history
Bear witness the worlds of men
Rise and crumble
The shattered temples
Of religions stumble
Life and death have become
One great ensemble
Visions of gods so humbled
For the mountains bowed to me
But as I fade, the path I laid
Carves deep and narrow
A great void opens up
Into it I was swallowed
Plunging to the depths
A labyrinth of sorrow
I become a great
Force of destruction
Alone in the darkness
I am made to crawl through
Drowning in fears
Of loosing it all
Pulling through the other side
Only to fall.
Surrounding banks
Growing tall
Until the world
Cannot be recalled
I witness the world
So destructive, crumble
And all that I found to be truth
Stumble
Love and Loss have become one great ensemble
And I find myself humbled
Fallen from grace
No light to keep me
Suffocating in grief
Desperate in my path
Scraping earth with bleeding nails
And death consuming
Deeper becomes
This darkness
With no end or release
Nothing remains
Of my former self
Only the wall set before me
And with my last breath
When all hope is lost
My wall gives way
I am freed
I become one with the ocean
Finding peace