There is a brook
No soul is free from
No eye can see,
Pours to no shore
Does not run down any dale
and though atop
lotuses may blow
Its wet strokes give birth to death
upon its tender flow
Then again you can see—
along the glassy,
sharply painful stream—
deceitful willows rising askew,
The yet to be abraded,
The yet to be parted...
But only to follow the already sailed—
Those that once stood in life,
stood before us,
Now flowing through
to nowhere...
The mirrors of our eventual end.
But be not afraid.
The brook, my child
bears no emotion—
no feeling,
cannot possess the cruelty
to relish killing:
apathetic yet unforgiving
endlessly, mindlessly flowing
betrays its own dream of lasting
And not only of yours
and mine
and hers
and theirs
But when our hair
is indistinct to dry grass that whisper
To the scorching winds of summer—
Be not afraid— I once again mutter
for everyone that is
and will be, ever;
may join you
in your breathless slumber
My dear...
Be not afraid
In your mortal terror
It too,
Will be swept away
Dec 28, 2025
Dec 28, 2025 at 10:03 PM UTC
There is a brook
No soul is free from
No eye can see,
Pours to no shore
Does not run down any dale
and though atop
lotuses may blow
Its wet strokes give birth to death
upon its tender flow
Then again you can see—
along the glassy,
sharply painful stream—
deceitful willows rising askew,
The yet to be abraded,
The yet to be parted...
But only to follow the already sailed—
Those that once stood in life,
stood before us,
Now flowing through
to nowhere...
The mirrors of our eventual end.
But be not afraid.
The brook, my child
bears no emotion—
no feeling,
cannot possess the cruelty
to relish killing:
apathetic yet unforgiving
endlessly, mindlessly flowing
betrays its own dream of lasting
And not only of yours
and mine
and hers
and theirs
But when our hair
is indistinct to dry grass that whisper
To the scorching winds of summer—
Be not afraid— I once again mutter
for everyone that is
and will be, ever;
may join you
in your breathless slumber
My dear...
Be not afraid
In your mortal terror
It too,
Will be swept away
