you and i

don't put the future in a box
of disappointments
happiness isn't a package you can save
for a rainy day
don't reassure yourself with a handful
of worries
you can't trust your head to know
the way

look at your life as a murmur
of waters
rolling along toward the close
of the day
the trees and the banks rim the shores
of time
tranquility chaos divergent paths but
one way

i'll find you again at the end
of the rivers
i'll find you again on the ocean
gray
until then i'll dream of a girl
with flowers
waiting at the western edge to wash our tears
away