Dry Bed

Why do rivers
feel the need
to flow away from their source?
What prompts them to dig
in secret
into the earth that cradles them?

They must make
their own way
I know
but to where?

They want to seperate
to differ
to mark themselves
distinct.
So they flow on
usually in the opposite direction
of expectations
never the easiset way
to go.

When they find
their own niche
their own dry bed
they will smooth
and buffet
and fill it
until other smaller rivers
begin to flow
out and away
from them.

It is then
now
that they remember
the beginning.