Running Water

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I am the running water that flows down the mountains
and fills up the valleys.
I am the rushing onslaught in a hurricane
as a rapier is to a bear-chested dummy.
I am gathering, then parting,
I change from melting snow
to the clouds creating imagines
as a painter who sees his vision of America,
something great and undefined.
I am the roadrunner during the storm.
My reach is as expansive as the ocean like a bowl that can neer be filled and as compact as the streams that cover the earth
like a tree digging down into the abyss.
My journey takes me far and wide,
but I always end up in the place where I started,
for I am the running water.
No place can keep me confined.
I drip, I freeze, I evaporate,
whatever it takes to please.
I am life's best friend, but, also,
come into the abyss
where I can be destructive.
To find that I am the running water.

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