Like a Billion Year Dream

Cascading an icy mountain stream

Like a billion year dream

Dripping out a car’s exhaust

Glinting in the morning frost

Filtering through your liver

In cold air, can make you shiver

Or be a warming shower

Somewhere else the next hour

In the soda pop

Or a toilet plop

Soaked up by a tree

If we could be so free

In a fluffy cloud

Or a blood stained savior's shroud

In a mourning mother’s tears

Or in cold sudsy beers

In a pond with leaping frogs

In horizon hiding fogs

In a surfers dreamy wave

Dripping from a ceiling cave

Deep within the ocean

Mostly is in motion

Washed away the home

With no conscience it does roam

Can give life, and can drown

Same to the pauper and the crown

And without it, all will thirst

It matters not your best or worst

There’s wonder in the water

Like birth and sometimes slaughter

Where’d this come from, where will it go?

Maybe someday we’ll all know

A miracle and death

Refresh or snuff your breath

Carving, boiling, steaming, misting

Water's magic is persisting