River Destiny

When the wind past my heart flew

It cleared the dust away

And my mind opened like crystal skies

And the thought occurred with no delay

To stop running with the rest of them

To stay back and around me look

What I really seek I will find

Only from the rest when I unhook

“Oh why a thought so different

Apart from the other hearts

Why say me to go the other way

When I can continue the same old starts”

I spoke myself through the river banks

Where my reflection as witness stood

I must make my decision wisely

Do I remove the world’s hood?

And to me a voice beneath spoke, quietly

My image in the water shook

“Be the miracle of the story

Not another page of that book”

“Remember under those expectations

There is a star willing to evolve

And shine alone as mighty as sun

To whom the ordinary planets revolve”

By then the time had run

It was now or history

Run with the rest of the troop

Or dance above the anticipatory

As the last second went past

I clutched my hands with “the will”

Years after my success

I thank the river beneath the hill