Waterfall
for H.T.

what working or not working
water down pouring without end

unlike rain which commences and ceases
who saw when it started
who will be here when this faucet
is stopped up, is stopped off

is anybody trying to fix it
is something going right
or has something gone wrong

antithetical to a volcanic eruption
but this too it seems resulted
from something rupturing, something broken

great big pipe somewhere
how many plumbers required to repair it
is the water wasting,
needing to be redirected where

is there somewhere where it is collecting

is it water like in a fountain
cycling, circling, recycling

all the water through the pours of earth
through our pores, quench thirst
sweat, pee, water to bathe in

salt water to wade in, to fish from, to drown in

ships upon oceans, however large
are but toys upon the ocean

Titanic going down,
how many hundreds upon it in icy seas

ice melts and this water falls
and does not stop, does not slow up

over the edge, the ledge,
rapid water foaming, boiling, steaming

what is clear, is white looking, white to look at
white as clouds are, as weighty as clouds

though they float, seem weightless, they’re massive

greyer and greyer and thunder and lightning
colliding and rupturing, rain falling torrentially

but the waterfall gushes down, washes down
at a speed unimaginable

to do what with, to be awed at, in awe of

some are dammed up, converted into HEP
who can harness this fall which thunders down,
is mist

it should whisper but its secret is for all to know
for all to hear and to take note and to take notes


© Obediah Michael Smith, 2009
10:37 p.m. 23.07.09