Un-damming the rivers we are:

Each of
Our voices are like rivers…
half dammed from the start-
some dams occur closer to their sources
nearby the heart
when young; when we still are learning
our own names-the rivers we are, that is. These dams
must be brought down suddenly some times…
to free the stream, and order our banks.

once free, we learn to
direct the river, to follow with care its flow; connect it with others
we are becoming fluid networks, rivulets of watery song, we
grow trees along our banks-sturdy bark things. Then, later
we may discover other dams—bigger ones to dismantle;
ones which came way before us which others have learned to
take apart and re-approriate.
By then our voices have enough wisdom
to bless, in love, as we displace
whatever blocks His Voice from flowing
right through us, and out to water and connect His worlds.

But what of the beavers who build the dams
and redirect the waters of the earth;
these industrious family oriented ones
who never stop their work; well,
some are friends of re-direction
along the way; others need to be guided
down stream to play, until their endless work
is more usefully placed, and they
can help us pace our stewarding of
the endless river’s flow
towards heaven, and know
as ourselves, the river of
our true voices of Praise!