Run river wild, flow over me with your jade deluge.
Sweep me across your ancient stones, babbling secrets.
Let me join in the course of your life’s blood
Through the Earth’s capillaries.
I am free here.
The icy Arkansas my father knew in Colorado,
you see mountain water is in my blood too.
You envelope me into your emerald caresses,
carry me away like a lover to your oldest oak’s shade.
Your beauty reflects the Maker and
I am enraptured by the sight of you.
Run River Wild,
break my sorrows and weary burdens on your bluffs.
Where the north wind blows strong and your
white caps crash without a siren’s song.
Who can tame you River Wild?
Who can know all your secrets?
You know a few of mine.
Of moonlight whiskey kisses,
and dreams shared with only you and a cold one.
She is like you River Wild, I can’t tame her, and would never try.
Oh but to know her secrets and feel her warmth, reflects
just as when you are most still and mirroring the world
in your green glass.
Run River wild, you will be here long after I am gone,
but you won't be able to share my secrets
with any other lovers
as they sigh unto you their own.
You rush through me still
Calling me to stay with you, to let you carry me on
further from home, away from the real world.
You are my escape if only for an hour.
When the rain falls hard and you rise and rush,
will you have any memory of me?
Run River Wild, someday I will let you take me, and
we will be one.