The Stone and the River

They said to think about who you are 

And who you want to be 

After camp 

And I thought 

What if I don’t know 

The changes I want to happen to me? 

What if change 

Is best 

Faced like the wind 

Whipping at your face, making you squint 

And then slowly you’re a different person 

Maybe 

I don’t want to plan 

For who I want to be 

And I want the world 

To shape me 

And my people shape me and my forest and none of it’s really mine, 

Is it? 

But we’re together 

Stone and river 

Shaping each other 

And I don’t want to plan 

How the river will look next year 

Or how the stone will look in a lifetime.