Water soft and sensual
Healing cleansing resonating
Sinuous and curving
Yet unforgiving penetrating
Each watercourse forever probing
Quietly waiting for decay
To take a path of least resistance
To life sustained or drained away
Abundant in it’s everywhere
In waterways the great divide
Born to breathe we water weave
The plangent ice sings woe betide
Plumes from human inundation
Have made our skies a one-way door
A wall of pent-up energy
Call oceans north and south to war
Commanders of the tidal waves
With marching orders they proclaim
Send deluge forces on white horses
Their world of water will reclaim
Dec 27, 2018
Dec 27, 2018 at 11:18 PM UTC
Water soft and sensual
Healing cleansing resonating
Sinuous and curving
Yet unforgiving penetrating
Each watercourse forever probing
Quietly waiting for decay
To take a path of least resistance
To life sustained or drained away
Abundant in it’s everywhere
In waterways the great divide
Born to breathe we water weave
The plangent ice sings woe betide
Plumes from human inundation
Have made our skies a one-way door
A wall of pent-up energy
Call oceans north and south to war
Commanders of the tidal waves
With marching orders they proclaim
Send deluge forces on white horses
Their world of water will reclaim
Based on "The Chimes of Freedom" Bob Dylan
"Through the city's melted furnace,
unexpectedly we watched
With faces hidden
as the walls were tightening
As the echo of the wedding bells
before the blowin' rain
Dissolved into the bells of the lightning"
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