8183. I NEVER KNEW

I NEVER KNEW

I never knew what the river knew, and it

just went rolling past. Accepting that, I

let it be. There were rains and skies and

snows and winds, everything that conspired

to be. There's a soulful acceptance to life. 

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My world existed in different terms : before

the birth of images and words. I was able to

merge with a tree; my own consciousness,

wondering what it was like to be a tree, 

flowed into it in a curiosity of love. I

absorbed the being of the tree, as the

tree absorbed the being it of me. It's

all beyond the understanding from

which symphonies emerge.

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Language wasn't needed as I sought to

experience the river I never knew. I spread

throughout its passage, and I traveled where

it went and learned to know. The water 

became part of the man, as the man 

became part of the water.