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.
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 |
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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 |
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