Totally Flow

For Robert Lunatic Fringe and John Beck with my thanks for the inspiration.

The process of flow applies to all parts of our existence and these words we write together here will pass from the understanding of all but the most arcane of seekers.  I don't know if we should spend much time pondering that or not, but it fascinates me.

The title comes from the mind of Elsa Wieboldt, who created it as young girl as a substitute for "really cool," and I felt it was too brilliant to let pass by unnoticed.

If you'd care to hear the sung version, please click on this link: http://www.gerrywass.net/ and choose this song from the short list there.  Your criticism of this work helps me to grow, and I thank you in advance for your honesty.

Totally Flow

When I walk to the water in the afternoon

Leaves have fallen on the stream bed of time

When I speak to the hearts of my wordsmith friends

Life and death are again combined

When I sing in the words of my century

I cannot know how long they will live

For every now-dead metaphor once was

The freshest word we had to give

            It's totally flow, the here and now

            Not just water and not just time

            It's built into everything down to the words

            That we lock into rhythm and rhyme

            What was fresh goes into decay

            Before we know it we join the old

            So I offer my heart to these fair words-

            It's totally, totally flow

Throughout eternal centuries that

Disappear like evening wine

The old will say that the young destroy

The words that a culture shines

But the young go on being young

Creating where they can

And we all express a path of hope

On Earth, by sea or land

Chorus

Gerry Wass

3/25/2006