T Rivers Running To Freedom Apropos The Underground Railroad)

 To Rivers Running To Freedom

 (Apropos The Underground Railroad)

With eyes wide open

And souls burning,

While they rested we were running—

Running dreams

To visions like rivers:

Cascading estuaries;

                                        Wide open seas.

Running dreams

Under star decked heavens;

In the rivers God has troubled free.

Running dreamers

Running and running;

Laying down trace tracks of visions;

Highlighting paths to free flowing

River waters.  Seeking depths

Of freedom’s ways:

Where there’s no more slavery

Over me;

And the weary too!

With eyes wide open

And souls burning,

While they rested

We just keep on a’running:

Running waters of rivers freely.

And now our children

Wade, bathe and baptize in the rivers

God has troubled free.