Rivers run

Rivers run

Drenched with blood

No one can stop the flood

Of heartbreak

Here beside the willow weeping

The earth collected all your tears

Pooling together the years of shedding

As what had to break apart

Loosened itself

And then let go

There is a pain

That only the open heart can know

And do not be surprised

If these tears that are shed in silence

In time become only a memory

For memories always lie

Buried somewhere

Only to rise

When the time is right

For past and present to collide

Bringing anew

Deeper revelations

To your soul

For when rivers run

Red with blood

Who knows how many ages of sorrow

They carry

There is a time to tarry

In these wasteland halls of memory

And a time for moving forward

And closing the door

As morning calls