LIFE
 
LIFE IS A WHIRLING STREAM, SO I SAID
BUT NOT FOR ME IS THIS WHIRLING STREAM;
I’LL FIND MY PEACE OF MIND
ON  THE SIDE OF THE RIVERBED
AND WATCH THE STREAM GO BY.
 
AND AS I SAT IN PEACEFUL BLISS
LISTENING TO THE STREAM’S HAPPY SONG;
IT TOLD ME OF PLACES AND THINGS I WOULD MISS
AND URGED ME TO COME ALONG.
 
SO I THREW MYSELF INTO THE WHIRLING STREAM
MY LONELINESS TO DROWN;
IT TOSSED ME ABOUT AND RUSHED ME ALONG
AND ALMOST DRAGGED ME DOWN.
 
BUT I TREAD MY FEET TO KEEP MY HEAD
ABOVE THE THRESHING THRONG;
AND IN THE DISTANCE SLOWLY FADING
ECHOES THE PEACEFULL SONG.
 
             EDEL KNOOB