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Longing
What is this Longing?
Tangled, gnarly root of suffering
And sacred rushing river...
Ever changing
Moving...
Glistening water
Granting Life
How to let the river carry me?
To flow...
To let my thirst be its own answer
Its own quenching cup
And not be like the heedless salmon
Fighting...
Swimming upstream...
Breaking its body against the rocks...
Still, I suppose,
the salmon, too,
like me,
Is only doing what it must.
© Alyce McDonnell