We Are the River

We are the river
Our lives are not divisible
Into day and weeks and years

We flow
One moment is part of the next
One minute is part of the next
One year is part of the next

We are the same person always
No matter the chronology
No matter the clock or calendar

Sighing seconds of sibilant sounds
Dying decades of decadent drones
Mutating minutes of miniature murmurs

And so we are organic
And so we are spiritual
And so we are at one with the universe