How many poets have these pavements known br Stepping and storming, thinking and weaving br Lines into dreams; these cracked intellectual stones br Have mutely remained still under the onslaught of words: br Silent in the fury of the poet's world. br br This twisted tree has seen me too br Trying to reason out what I did, br The evidence of the illogical emotion br And the rational linear world. br br Why did the clouds run away? br Was there a reason the moon suddenly hid? br Why did the waves slosh and fall? Fated to follow the tide, br Feelings and fate, the poems pour out. br br The city waits, accepting the flow br Of verse that, thrown into the river br Flowed on, flowed on. The river takes all br And life carries on, carries on.