Desert Rivers

Rivers exploring

Present because of what is absent

Walking through when I should be drifting

Echoes fill the space where there once was a rush

Shaking the loose ground

Memories flooding

With each step on the cracked surface

Kicking up the dust of the past

Blown away by the torrid wind

Deepening the ravine

Images flashing

The distance between what ought to be and reality

Infinitely wider than the crevasse before me

A graveyard with stone etched summaries

Poor representation of its former life

Imagining what was lost

Status clinging

Haunted by the potential

Defeat and acceptance mix among the sand

A different bed made

Lying down in it

Storms rolling

The smell brings a promise

Thunder and lightning met with applause

The sky darkens

Fostering hope

Hopes receding

Temporal relief bringing irreversible damage

Gravity and erosion doing their job

The water serving to further carve and callous the cracks

No solution to this condition

Unrelenting cycle

Self discovering

Waking from a nightmare

To find it your reality

Knowledge of what was lost

A spring and not a storm

Letting go

God satisfying

A canyon that only the Infinite can fill

A crevasse carved by the Eternal

Thus Eternity must replenish

Never meant to be a ravine

But a river

Transforming

Inspired by:

[God] has put eternity into man’s heart. Ecclesiastes 3:11b

I will open rivers on the bare heights, and fountains in the midst of the valleys. I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water. Isaiah 41:18