As Water We Have Options

These stagnations that come from low water -

where once was excess, remnants lie in stillness, 

shrinking, draining, breeding stink and mischief.

Don't live there.

Live, when you can, in the ripple that holds its place

Even as the river flows fast through.

Live in the fluid rise that's elevated

By the complementary forces of

Forward motion and

Surface tension.

Stationary, stable, yet rolling and always new,

Sometimes so full it has to sing,

Sometimes so full it's bursting 

to let go its toehold and join the formless flow

on down the river.

© Laura Seale, 2017

Rippling Water
by Siru7887
from Wikimedia Commons