Rivers and Dirt

Langston Hughes spoke of Rivers deep and rooted coiled and waved these rivers rose again the river danced over the rocks only becoming stronger unafraid to stop rushing emancipated and yet segregated from the land and the soil moved wearily slow to understand there cannot be water without land and land without water is nothing yet they went without each other so long suffering the water waved fought and fell from the sky wanting to be spread across the land integrated equal unchained slowly the soil eroded into the pools of blue mixing cooling becoming something new when suddenly there was a day when the earth and water combined nurturing the trees the animals and creating new life to this day they have not been apart natural and equal the water and the dirt