El Rio



EL RIO

We lose touch,

Not purposely.

It's just life..

A river that runs wild..

and forever!

Maybe..

But maybe not..stll,

That river goes,

It flows..

While life has endings..

Stops,

Derailments,

Laughter,

Joy and..

Fears! It has..

Celebrations,

Lamentations,

Tears..

That come quicker than we care.

We walk the shoreline,

Looking for..

What? Exactly?

Some of us find..

Rocks..

Some diamonds..

Some gold...

Some..well, really it's what your heart sees, isn't it?

And the river doesn't stop,

It goes,

It doesn't wait,

Nor slows..

Meanders like our minds..

From embankment to embankment..

As if in search,

Digging,

And we lose touch,

Lose our footing in the depths of time,

The depths of life..

As we travel this linear river,

So far down its flow,

So now..

We look..

For our roots,

Uprooted!

For the lost..

Touch..

of..

Innocence.

About this poem

The River is about all the folks that come and go in our life, about how we navigate the turns and twists of life, about where we were and how we look back, about losing touch, about how we are carried in only one direction by the currents of time.

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Written on July 18, 2018

Submitted by vgmende on August 07, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme A B X C X X X X X X X X X X X X A X B X C X X
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 875
Words 236
Stanzas 23
Stanza Lengths 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1

Victor Mendez

64 and flowing down the river of time. 2 grands and 2 daughters and 1 son. Began writing in 2015 after a breakup and the only way to rid myself of the thoughts was to write. Still have the very 1st thing I wrote and good gawd it is crap..lol. I have no training, only like to write so everything I have is freeform except for one I wrote about Bridge of Sighs. Former Marine, former young man, currently human. Peace more…

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