The River Orchy

I came to the River Ochy,

with cares too much for a day.

She melted them into her waters

and carried them far away.

Was it really worth all the worry?

Her waters took them, and moved them along.

When the day was finally over,

the ripples were all be gone.

She chattered over shining pebbles,

gulped over boulders smooth.

She asked “Why try to move these heavy rocks?

They’re never going to move.

Can you see from a different viewpoint?

Slip around the rocks in the way”.

I slid my troubles into her waters.

They sailed away to another day.

Was it really worth all the worry?

Did I make myself grow tall?

There is life within my body,

the greatest miracle of all.

I laid down my heavy pebbles,

flat on her river bed,

and her waters washed over the aches and the strain,

and they flowed downstream instead.

I listened to the River Orchy,

to the One who guides her path.

I let go of the pebbles of worry

I was never meant to have.

She didn’t prize them from my fingers,

I just had to let them go,

let the source of the Orchy river take them from my hand,

and breathe new life into my soul