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In Praise of Water by Aryeh Shell
Oh beloved
I long to sing out your infinite forms,
knowing that I can only,
will always fall short
but let it be a holy failure.
Let me trip over my words
and crack open my heart
and fall to my knees
with thirst,
and devotion
for you.
O beloved shapeshifter,
You come to me today,
shimmering.
You come flowing.
Sometimes,
you come devouring,
swallowing whole cities
with one gulp.
You come tender,
leaving salty trails
down my cheeks
You come soft as a quiver
in the corner of my eye
threatening to fall
threatening to rise,
threatening to wipe us all out,
If we don’t wake up and remember.
You come as trickster and magician,
evaporating dew into sky,
Poof!
you become cloud,
then slide down
again
as rain,
becoming
a soft drizzle here,
a monsoon flood there,
eliciting moans of bliss
and cries of despair.
In your absence,
Corn stalks wither
and fires burn
with rage.
In your presence,
stones yield.
Mountains become valleys
You carve caves
and stalactites
as you drip, drip, drip
through time.
You come as snowflake and avalanche
as ripple and riptide,
as tsunami and wave.
As river to the sea.
You come as the Tao.
You are the way.
and I drop to my knees
to pray
for a ceasefire.
Oh beloved, I have only just begun
to sing your names,
please accept these
humble bumbling
offerings
as they pour through me,
through us, now
as we sing,
as we grieve,
for if we can weep with praise,
then like you,
we too
will give life
everywhere
we go,
because we too,
are water.
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