Water

Water
Water everywhere
Flowing
Merging
Swirling
Invisible in the air
Sometimes intangible
Other times insistent with leaden weight
Cycling
Running
Traversing sky and soil
Endless nomad
Composing cotton mountains
And coal black curtains
Summoning thunder
Sparking lightning
Splitting sunlight into prismatic arches
Falling
Falling
Falling
Floating flakes
Driving hail
Gentle rain
Seeping into the cracks and invisible spaces
Transmuting into life
Or soaking deep
Deep
Deep
Underground
Carrying rock and sediment
Accidental architect
Constructing tunnels and spires
Melting stone into a semblance of itself
Drip
By
Drip
Always pulled
Inexorably seeking
Depressively looking for
The lowest point
The path of least resistance
Fighting other drops for
That holiest place
Yet always drawn together
Naturally cohesive
Molecules endlessly
dancing
Linking
orbits
Sharing
electrons
A constant
sub-atomic orgy
Spinning each
other
From Atlantic
To Artic
Then Pacific
And Indian

To abyssmal depths
And
Near
Static

Frigid

Deeps

Than up
Up
Up
In a spray and crash
Back heavenward
To begin again

-D.M.D.M. 6-4-10