The Cuyahoga River

Being back home; it's been a while WritersCafe. This is the sister poem to The Donau River.

Sitting along the rocky bank

Collecting my thoughts

How many people should I thank?

For in my life helping me connect the dots

A breath of steam escapes my lips

As I hug my knees to keep warm

The cold rock freezes my hips

Letting my emotions swarm

So many people across the pond

Adding an individual ornament to the new me

Of people I grew fond

For maybe in a few years I won't see

I left a piece of me by the Donau river

The place that had given me a shiver

My feelings forever drowned in the Black Sea

Only for new ones to be replaced by opportunity

As the raging Cuyahoga river passes by me

With this chaos I feel serenity

It gives me the energy to charge

Into the black void

I feel like a criminal at large

Ripping the shackles of a controller I feel overjoyed

Freedom is all that I sing

Opportunity is all I want to gain

Like the river I shall run raging

No longer in pain

The Donau is a healer

The Cuyahoga is my rebirth

Author's Note

Back at home in Cleveland, and now back at school finishing my Senior year. Unfortunately, time isn't my friend so writing has been very sparse. I hope to hop back in the swing of things, but that takes time.

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[Saddam]

Freedom is all that I sing
Opportunity is all I want to gain

that's so sweet of your writing. new, but pure... great....