Love Poem: River Source
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Written by: Gerald Dillenbeck

River Source

We are each a spring of therapeutic kindness 
and pathological unkindness
emerging from and toward a rising river of time,
flowing down deep through universal oceanic absorption,
ebbing back upriver's EarthBound regeneration
back through time
leaping to confluently touch PresentPresence
if only for a timeless golden moment,
rapturous waterfall of time's integrity
sweeping back and forth
across Earth's ecoconscious eyes,
radiantly elational swirling smiling timeless joy
in love enjoying OtherTimes
CoPresent.

Kindness and unkindness transactions
among collegial parasitic ecotherapists
often unequal in power over potential futures,
produce both generosity and stinginess of empathy,
which responses ecoconsciousness invites
as appropriately proportional
are transactions between mutual water-flow mentors
of gratitude and lack thereof.

River's Way
invests our human natured
Business as Fluidly Usual,
but Water's EarthConscious Way
always prefers eco-gravitating
regenerational therapy,
rather than stagnant swamps
seeping monoculture's stinky toxins,
ebbing lack of love
as healthy nature's spring.