I look at my reflection
Distorted in the currents of time.
I am a leaf floating ever forward
Does my presence even matter in this vast ocean?
For time is a river
And existence a sea
Where every ripple compounds
Where every action confounds
Where every thought comes unwound
Where reality is unbound
From the currents of time
You never will be free.
I will drag down those you love
Leaving you to drift alone
Someday I will take you too.
The whitecaps of waves
Are my claws
I stalk you from birth
I take you at death
No matter what
You'll never escape
The currents of time
And the ripples you leave on the surface
Of the universe.
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Tailwind: Poems by a Teenage Naturalist
Poetry🕊️A 2018 Watty's Longlisted Work!🕊️ ...the girl asked the raven how she could fly. The Raven told her it was easy. All she needed was a tailwind to help her heart soar. Flight lets you see the world from a different perspective. My eyes are ope...
