A river always likes to flow <br />downhill - from up to down - <br />its water somehow seems to know <br />to find the nearest town. <br /> <br />The fishes aren't quite so smart, <br />they often swim uphill, <br />but this can be quite slow and hard, <br />though using tail and gill <br />makes up for lack of proper thinking <br />and also keeps the fish from sinking. <br /> <br />Could you explain to me why it's so, <br />that rivers don't stay home? <br />Who did invent the constant flow <br />that makes the river roam? <br /> <br />It's restlessness, you say my friend, <br />that it's like smoke that billows. <br />And why do all the rivers tend <br />to have their weeping willows? <br /> <br />Because, my dear, the willows weep <br />their tears straight into streams. <br />They do have promises to keep <br />it isn't what it seems. <br /> <br />I think that happy rivers must <br />have tears to keep from gloating. <br />They also tend to settle dust, <br />stirred up from too much boating. <br /> <br />So, rivers flow with fishes in it, <br />and happy waves are normal. <br />But weeping willows, every minute <br />shed tears to keep things formal. <br /> <br />When weeping willows finally die <br />and no more tears come down, <br />the rivers rise from low to high <br />and flooding comes to town. <br /> <br />So each things has its usefulness. <br />Its role, which was designed <br />by higher powers who see this <br />as bag balm for the mind. <br /> <br />And man has never learned to stay <br />away from interfering <br />with Nature's Laws and Nature's Ways, <br />that's why the disappearing <br />of trees and rivers, fish and man <br />is something that we should, <br />prevent by doing what we can: <br />And nothing would be good.<br /><br />Herbert Nehrlich<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/when-willows-weep/
