Eternal Source

 

1

 

Bubble up, eternal source –

follow your recurring course – slither down from mountain slopes 

gather into rivulets – sweep the valleys – pass the hills.

Make a turn and broaden here –

overflow with cataracts – fill the rivers – form the lakes –

mirror all the sky and swell, and flow into the ocean.

Bubble up – evaporate –

disappear into the air – make tornados, thunderheads –

sail away on tumbling winds – float and rest among the clouds . . . 

 

2

 

Turn around and look below –

pour if you are inclined to – hit the ocean – beat the land –

leap the breakers – lap the shore – stretch across the open sea.

And now enjoy your being

like the ocean does all day – roll and play and live and dream –

heave with billows to the main, and reach to each horizon.

Rise and fall with tidal waves –

spin below in vortices – mix with hidden undercurrents –

touch the silent ocean floor – join the essence of it all . . .

 

3

 

Roll on, ocean – find the coast –

do not tarry in the gulf – meet the rivers – leave the bay –

cross the pools, lagoons and lakes – revel with the waterfalls.

Bubble up and undulate –

spread the message of the deep – enter grottos, clefts and pores 

connect to water everywhere – soak the thirsty, waiting soil . . .

Hear the trickle of the spring –

ripple over creek and rill – run with rapids down the stream –

let no stagnant water be – follow your recurring course –

Bubble up, eternal source.