Printed from WriteWords - http://www.writewords.org.uk/archive/28855.asp

The River Path

by  JessicaPaul

Posted: Friday, May 18, 2012
Word Count: 125
Summary: Hmmmm...what to say about this one? I'm kind of hoping the poem will do the talking for me. I'd be really interested to hear what people understood from it to see whether or not I conveyed what I wanted to well.
Related Works: Manic Panic • 



Drop of water in a river.
Whose journey does it take?

It surely can’t flow back upstream.
It can’t stand still,
speed up
or slow.
Its pace is set
by nature
after all.
Confined to the river’s path,
it has no choice
but to round each bend.

Does it flow aimlessly then?
It bobs, dives, swerve’s to rise.
Can mill at the water’s edge;
take time to tickle lilies.
Float along the surface,
windswept in the breeze.

But the path it follows
was carved long before
the drop fell from the sky.
So could it ever have control,
or the right to question why?

Perhaps the drop of water’s happy
just to float along.

Perhaps it doesn’t worry whether
its path is right or wrong.