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Sport 23: Spring 1999
The Issue of Water
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The Issue of Water
A life could be simple, it could be gushing like a spring,
it could be surging and cascading, swirling and rippling
like a river sweeping down to the sea: it is an issue
of fluency, the mother-tongue, the first murmurings,
it is an issue of gentleness, giving, yet never giving
up the task of smoothing hardness, it is an issue
of purity, and of reflection, it is the issue of pure silver
coming as a colour into a dark world and moving
with such force and such beauty that we, standing beside it,
love what is coming and go willingly where we're going.