omnipresent

River is a river is a river is a river
Water can’t be counted or numbered
This river, that river, same water.
Two parts hydrogen, one part oxygen.


It’s just water. Volume. Weight.
Surface tension. Least resistance.
Water here, water there.
Pour it together and it’s just water
There isn’t this water and that water.

Water flows. Water stands. Water runs.
Evaporates. Freezes.
Condenses. Thaws.
The water that passed by an hour ago was
Exactly the same as the water that is now.

This river finds as its source a spring atop the mountain.
Where does the spring get its water?
Same place as any other spring.
Same water.

This river will find the Gauley and together
They will meet the New and form the Kanawha.
The four will feed the Ohio and
Travel to the Mississippi and empty
Into the Gulf of Mexico

At that precise moment,
The same water will bubble up on
Top of the mountain and flow downward toward the Gauley.

Time can’t be measured by the journey of water down the river to the sea.
No time passes. Forever passes. Same water.
Begins as it ends. Always beginning. Always ending.
Same water present at every point of the journey.
Every point in the journey present in every moment.
Alpha and Omega.