by Liam

Before she reaches the delta of surrender,

the river reflects, trembling with its wisdom.

She feels the memory of mountains behind her,

the cradle of stone from which she sprang,

the whisper of forest leaves she carried,

the villages her nourishment watered,

the winding ways she carved with song.

Before her now, the waters-edge of all she was—

the vast arch of the wild blue ocean.

It’s here her story seems poised to vanish,

forgotten in the endlessness of sea.

Yet there is no return, no retreating.

No refusing the law of nature’s anatomy,

for the journey only leads onward,

toward something vaster, greater than herself.

So she yields, surrenders to the oceanic embrace,

and as her waters merge into that vast unknown,

Her fear washes away like a final shadow of night.

For she has not been lost, nor scattered,

but gathered—gathered into the fullness

of her own becoming,

by dissolving into the wholeness 

of who she’s always been.

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