Surprise

Reading Rumi always leads my mind in strange directions.

Surprise

I was flowing with the river

Saw you

at the bend before the fork

fighting upstream

struggling against the current

I laughed aloud

One with the water, the bubbling, the wind

As we neared each other

You reached for me

We both plunged into the wet

And were pulled passionately

Down the tributary

I would not have chosen

       N.Freeman 2016