Kurt Philip Behm

Pateras Potamos

Come to me Achelous

river without tears

Carry me distant

away from my fears

 

Direction is onward

Olympus bestows

 Hermes in orbit

directing the flow

 

At home in your waters

whose currents surpass

Defining my history

from first to the last

 

Your torrent unbridled

the eye of the storm

I drift in your motion

—alive and reborn

 

(Dreamsleep: October, 2022)