Up at the crack of dawn and off down to this very beautiful river. She stood calm and seemingly unperturbed by the human traffic of inquisitive time travellers, almost unaware that they were merely echoes of the thousands who had been absorbed by her beauty throughout the centuries.
It was the most amazing experience. The Rhine is littered with castles and folk legends from way back when and I would love to go back and spend time finding out all the stories and writing songs about them. The Rhine has tolerated humans for many centuries! It felt truthfully like being outside of yourself, as if your life had stopped on the quay side with the lines of coaches, whilst you floated on a daydream….
Poetic thought: Are humans the tolerated disease of nature?
How clever are we
To surgically cut
Tarmac viens into her skin?
How clever is she
To flow strong
For so long
She need not notice
This cancer traversing
Through her watery fingers
Pilgrims, are we
At her feet
Awestruck
Breath taken
Time travellers
Her tolerated disease
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