Pain

Pain

With constant flow it winds a path

Creating gorges and bluffs with wrath

At flood stage it has a dangerous flow

But a drought can leave it running slow

Through the landscape it runs side to side

At times getting very shallow and wide

But some places are very cold and deep

Falling from the shoreline fast and steep

They have different sources at the start

But so much the same once they depart

All cutting through and changing things

The wearing down, its erosion brings

From Springs, to melting ice , or rain

Different headwaters, but same old pain