Chase The Running Water

Chase the running water

Love

The way it slips ahead of you

Laughing over stones

Never once asking permission to shine

Follow it the way you follow a heartbeat

You’ve come to trust

Soft at first

Then certain

Then necessary

Let it pull you past the places

You swore you’d never return to

Past the quiet hurts

Past the names you no longer answer to

And when the river bends

Bend with it

When it deepens

Let yourself deepen too

Because somewhere downstream

Where the light breaks open

And the world grows gentle again

I’ll be waiting

Hands in the water

Calling your name

Like a promise I never learned to break