My thoughts are a runaway train
- Marieke de Koker
- May 31, 2024
- 1 min read
Updated: Jun 21, 2024

Christmas lights in Chicago © 2015 Marieke de Koker
My thoughts are a runaway train,
a swarm of lanternflies.
They pass faster than I can catch them...
I watch this waterfall and wonder,
when will it end?
When will the river run dry?
This land of drought
now overflowing in abundance,
the source of which unknown...
I wait for it to pass
so I will be safe
in the comfort of my desert,
but I don't want it to pass.
I want to live in fountains of abundance
forever...
Yet waters of this magnitude
may inevitably drown me
© 2024 Marieke de Koker
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