The Waterfall

Deep in the woods there’s a power that yields
to the smallest of trees and stones
but which shapes the foundation of forests and fields
by its force, its soft force, alone.

With a swiftness that slips through the tightest of hands,
with a coolness that soothes the soul’s fire,
by the Earth embraced like a mother divine
and by the mountaintops sired.

Rising and falling, seeking some point,
where the valley descends to the deep
where the caverns carved in the mountains below--
the pools into which Her life seeps.

Look to the woods--there’s a beauty as deep
as any contained lake or sea,
where the waters may run, all boundaries undone,
endless, unfettered and free.

-By Sharon C. Hawk

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