06/05/2026
The River That Woke at Her Touch
She stepped where the river was listening,
her feet breaking the skin of silence.
The water, long tired from carrying the sky,
paused
as if it had finally been seen.
She did not touch with desire,
only with remembrance.
Her fingers entered the current
the way prayer enters breath,
and the river woke,
shivering with light.
The old ones say water knows beauty
not by sight,
but by the way a heart moves near it.
At her passing, the river remembered its name,
its first song beneath the stones,
its duty to keep the world alive.
Circles spread from her hand like stories,
each ripple a promise unbroken.
The river did not claim her
it followed her silence,
grateful to be changed
without being taken.
🎨 Art by Serin Alar
🖊️Poem: Piahn