(Coffee Break + iPhoneography) |
I've known rivers:
I've known rivers
ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins.
My soul has grown
deep like the rivers. I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young.
I built my hut near
the Congo and it lulled me to sleep.
I looked upon the
Nile and raised the pyramids above it.
I heard the singing
of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln went down to New Orleans, and I've seen its
muddy bosom turn all golden in the sunset.
I've known rivers:
Ancient, dusky
rivers.
My soul has grown
deep like the rivers.
~James Langston Hughes