Lightening river

Paddocks got me born
chemical stew formed me
cloud formed and so did rivers
across god's forehead

We the farmers told to harvest
from the river
Father summoned the lightening
and it fell with crack like a blessing

Life in graced the river
and we harvested like machines
Up we went and down again all through
against the strong flow and easily with it too

Under the rock we saw shrimp
our minds merging with the water
until we realized the river itself was our life
conflict cooking on the shores

Crashing into destiny
A flash flood of emotions
of emergence
we forget it's some big adventure

like hermit crabs
scattering under rocks
and residing there
never venturing out for bigger meals

Yet we are the incredible amphibians
omnivores
choosers of opportunity
and creators of it