I wish I was the water
said the rock
water dances, swirls and flows
somehow it always knows
just how to move, just what to do
as it joins
to me
to you
I wish I was the water
said the rock
it just lay there
in river ground
being heavy, fixed
and round
trying desperately to be
of some small help
to you
to me
until just now, at last, it found
courage to launch up off the ground
at once it meets the water's sway
thinks that it may help someone a tiny bit today
- and then does not remember
remember what to say
it tries to meet as warm and soft
as all that water there, aloft
but a rock
it is not able to
connect with water
me
or you
Having failed, the rock retreats
until the river floor it meets
and there it will forever lay
still, disillusioned, in the clay
I wish I was the water
says the rock