HOPE

 In every mouth of every river

lies a hope that the water

will carry me so deep into the

unknown that i will return

to the earth my roots once clung to

I've written this silent wish

across every shoreline and 

none has yet shown me 

mercy but each puddle is 

the birth of something deeper 

and every rainfall sings the 

promise of a flood

My hope maybe a dark place

but it is as constant as the tide.