To Rivers Running To Freedom
(Apropos The Underground Railroad)
With eyes wide open
And souls burning,
While they rested we were running—
Running dreams
To visions like rivers:
Cascading estuaries;
Wide open seas.
Running dreams
Under star decked heavens;
In the rivers God has troubled free.
Running dreamers
Running and running;
Laying down trace tracks of visions;
Highlighting paths to free flowing
River waters. Seeking depths
Of freedom’s ways:
Where there’s no more slavery
Over me;
And the weary too!
With eyes wide open
And souls burning,
While they rested
We just keep on a’running:
Running waters of rivers freely.
And now our children
Wade, bathe and baptize in the rivers
God has troubled free.