Drifting Thoughts Poem by Robert Green

Fast moving river
Cold and deep 
To immerse myself I deliver
From the jetty, leap!

Coolness from the days heat
Life's stresses abate
Heart misses a beat
Float on my back, at a sedate rate

Drifting downstream 
Water gently rocking 
Minds in a daydream
birds high, chirping, mocking. 

Currant pulls faster
Water lapping
To rapids, and disaster
Arms and mind now flapping. 

Go with the flow?
Smashed pillar to post 
Each rock, a blow
In mind, who'd grieve the most!

Flipped and turned
Body aches
Mind burned
Oh! For My pitied sake. 

Pulled under,
Life leaving
Water thundered 
Friends, no grieving!