Saturday 7 June 2014

An Open Brook

Lost in the woods who get,
Search through me the right way,
They quench their thirst, get all wet 
And leave me then to merge in the bay.

Reluctant to acknowledge my existence
They pass by me, as does each day
Some haughty ones just take a glance,
Some simply refuse to look away..

By me-
They sit, they breathe, they speak, they eat
They bathe, they drink the waters.
Then as the evening comes to greet,
They give me shit in quarters.

With each dusk which dawns upon me,
In this lonely forest-world
The darker side, as I begin to see
I want to limit my ways curled.

Till last by all the farms I flow,
But not to join any river
Of men who come and men who go
So why go on for ever?