i wish to be held by a river please

i wish to be held by a river please

jamie hale

i wish to be held by a river please drowning

is something i do at night waking choked

only reminds me that air is precious i wish

to be empty a river knows the void carves it

day on glimmering day months later her path

has changed i wish for rounded stones my edges

are raw and sharp i wish for a dream woven

of reeds with which to sail the rivers please

i wish to remember this wish when i am floating

in confusing seas i wish to come safe to land

then leave