Grasping Light

Just downstream from that dark place

Where last beats fell and waters churned

A man looked down upon his face

In reverie, his thoughts did turn

To follow the river is to follow the arc

It does not drift, it does not wait

Find its course with limb and mind

There walks a man

There runs his fate

To follow the river is to follow the thread

It does not lie, it does not leave

Drowning stones there as he does

He comes to think

He comes to breathe

Something of that ember lives!

He feels it bide, he feels it wake

Looking out, but at itself

As if to speak

As if to make

His vision forming, flowing now

In tumbling verse, in melting song

Crafting words there as he does

They echo out

They echo on

But a vessel, alive

For a time, I would thrive

That was all

Nothing more lay below it

But a vessel, adrift

Not a theft, nor a gift

That was all

But a pulse, but a poet

To drink from the river is to meet with the arc

And drink until quenched

The man did

But a vessel, adrift

Not a theft, nor a gift

That was all

But a pulse