Floating

I have to live this life
one thing I must do
something you get
born into
I feel like floating
down a stream
don't know
where it leads me
I just can't see
it's like a dream
floating
in different directions
all of them new
it's all a surprise
what I find
It's called life
it's a sunrise
a new dawn
I'm floating
down a stream
can't see
it coming to an end
somewhere, somehow
I believe
there's a place
where I'll stay
come to a rest
somehow, somewhere
this stream will end

(c) JR. eightees-ninetees

River of guilt

when we fell into our river of guilt it almost
drowned us on the way down, and we realised
it is not the words that have been said, it is those
not

it made us want to surface again, back into
the stream of our forgiveness, where we saw
reason in the words that were never spoken
and still had to be, as they were known to both
of us

finally the understanding grew in our eyes, where
emotion settled down and made us believe a future
could still be kind to us

(c) JR. 2019