River’s Autobiography

River’s Autobiography

I am all and wholesome,

Starting from the blue

As small and tiny in nature,

But majestic and mighty in stature

For my journey winsome.

As the sign of unison,

United to leap forth to the deep

From highs to lows

From the head to the foot

As raindrops in communion, showered

When clouds delivered,

Amid sparks and lightnings

Amid roars and thunders

For the flow of my life from wombs,

Battering all over the tops,

Flowing through glaciers.

Sunrays pass through my dot mien

Offering the pretty rainbow,

My choicest gift for the joy of viewers.

I feel pride for my ride lively

In my constant flow lovely,

Bubbling and gurgling,

Full in might, full in life

I flow ...I flow

With glow on my brow,

Twinkling with stars in nights

Shining with the sunrays in days.

My flow is ceaseless in bliss

Selfless in service,

Relentlessly quenching the thirsts

Of parched throats of lands

Offering the breath to creatures,

Seeds sown and hidden

I deck them all in green

For life to shine in life-sheen.

It is my pristine and primary duty

In my long autobiography in enormity,

The course of my flow, invincible in force

From ups to downs

With twists and turns.

The pebbles, purling pearls at my bottom,

Know that I travel sans weariness.

I live ever in my flow to echo

In boatmen’s songs,

Letting sailors sail on my flow.

I glimpse all gazing me in love,

Offering prayers in devotion,

I offer them free gifts for life.

With me, they love to make a parley

I care for all, leaving nobody

It is my relation and concern,

Minding my sole sojourn.

I reach my mighty mother-ocean

As a foetus at her heart

To be born for my flow ever,

the present to merge the past

To live in the future,

The eternity of my journey.

Published: Poetcrit 39.2 (July - December 2026)