Like the river

© 2007 by Diane L. Schirf


I am old like the river
Like the river, running straight with the surety of youth
Like the river, twisting and winding with the uncertainty of age.

I am old like the river
Like the river, I have run my course.

Of the river, left but a trickle, a glisten in the sun
And of me, a photograph, a still, flat shadow.

A trace of what is no more.


10 November 2007.
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