Pretty River Poem by Leah Ayliffe

Leave the days and time for those who lost what came before.
Don't kill your energy with daydreams that blaze with a fire waiting for the perfect storm.
Hold out your hands, summer grass in the wind
Maybe a drop of life will fall into the palms like a dear friend.
Diamonds in the sun sparkling against the blue sky
Not hard or cold, not living just to die.
We have everything and nothing, will you keep her safe?
She jumped, dropped her skipping rope, forever in a higher place.
Set this vision on fire, stay inspired
Lose the notion that it's a balancing act across an electric wire
That will shock you no matter how strong your core.
All of everything that has been before
Exists in love, and in love alone.
For a man, a woman, the trees and flowers,
The air that we breathe, the thoughts in night hours.
I pray for your serenity in fire flies at dusk
The twilight memories of being good despite the rust
That faded the shine of hope within your heart.
Float with surrender down the pretty river of life
Don't you know this is only just the start?