Coyote and The River

coyote saw a river in the desert
cutting a path through sand and stone
hitchhiker silt coming along for the ride
specs of quartz and dried clay
as diamonds in its rushing torrent

"Why are you here, Oh river young
in the land of parch and unforgiving sun
run now from this place while your essence still lives
and let this fertile sand return to its scorched abode"

"my thanks for your plea, Oh coyote fair,
but water is my essence and it shall find its way
past hill through dale over sand and under stone
the sun shall not turn me astray
time is my essence and within it there is no abode
So fear not,
for i am where I am meant to be"

"perhaps you speak the truth, Oh river wise
for time does change
yet change is constant
tides rise and fall as the moon waxes and wanes
the nature of change itself is subjected to change
perhaps it is time to cease existnace in parables
and explain to one another what we are"

"you are coyote yet coyote yu are not
a curious observer
a shrewd inner-looking eye
cunning in nature
free by spirit"

"you are river yet river you are not
the herald of time
the symbol of change
unstoppable by nature
liquid in spirit"