Canoe

drifting downriver in a canoe

Immobile trees moving backward

flowing waters fixed blue

dry oar in the hand

of a still sitting statue

rocks ahead look rough

only one way through

the river is quickening now

the boat is being dragooned

into breaking itself on the rocks

and ending the journey to soon

one crucial piece of advice

in life also, this is true

if you wish to make it through the rocks

sitting still won’t help you

you have to be paddling foreword

in order to steer the canoe

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