Free Verse · Death & Loss
What the River Knows
The river does not end
where it meets the sea —
it only loses its banks,
and becomes too wide to name.
So you have not ended.
You have only outgrown
the shape we knew to call you by,
and joined the wider water.
Original poem © QuillOak — free for personal use.
“What the River Knows” by The QuillOak Editors — quilloak.com/poems/what-the-river-knows
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