As the river flows

What everyone knows
That time is a river
And life goes
As the river flows

Sometimes the cold of the water makes me shiver
Sometimes I look ahead to the stones
Over which it will flow, I imagine big rocks
That will smash me to pieces

That's when I don't go
As the river flows

But I swim against
With almost lethal force
When I loose myself to fear
When I'm not really here

When I'm lost in the future
When I'm lost in the past
Then I go against how the river flows

It gets buried sometimes
What everyone knows
The art is to know in the hardest moments

That nothing remains, all the bad goes away
And eventually there is always a new day
And eventually the water will slow

The art is to know this one thing about life
That everything in time will pass
This we must know
When the water pulls us under

The light on the water
Eventually shows us wonder
Life's beauty comes to those
Who know its nature
Who go as it goes

As the river flows