Water, author of the undying flow
Like Mother’s rivers, you carry what will grow
From far away where eyes can’t see
To another foreign sea
What is moved has no roots
It’s pulled by a falling
It’s pulled by some calling
It’s pulled by an unquenching
Thirst at the mouth of where it first came to be

Belly turning whispers into words
Without ever promising, what is born is birthed
From under skin and underground
To the air that carries sound
It will never let you down
It’s open without end
It’s open, transparent
It’s black in the distance
The space that’s just too far away to see

Two eyes try, try, through traveling, to find
Not what can be seen, but sight
Every wonder holds it all
A breathing man or a stalk of straw
Nothing’s larger than another
We’re wells without end
We’re wells a-drinking
From something undying

Something Undying

Music & Words by Katherine Sheng Morrison, 2017
Recorded in April 2019

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