I want to be a stream
Flowing through the forest
Doing my own feat
I want to be a stream
Like I used to be
Skipping along rocks
And jumping down depths
Running along meeting new friends
Raising a din
Dashing along to meet the ocean deep!
All I want is to be a little stream
But people won’t let me be
They twist and turn me around
They push me into rivers and
Onto turbines great
When all I want to be
Is a stream doing its own feat
They make me run swift
Where I want to run smooth
And stop me where I want to run
I push and push trying to stay alive
When I succeed I find I caused a many to die
Lost I am, shamed are my ways
I cease to push I cease to live
Cursed am I forever?
Greatness never desired, destructions never sought
I meet at every nook
Soiled am I, never to know myself again
Roots call me, chide me for the ways I have been
See what you desired and what lies at your feet?
Will I ever be able to explain?
They were not mine
Nor the river’s, does it matter
It was not the river I was supposed to meet
It was not the river I was supposed to lead you to meet
Were not mine and your desires just the same?
I belong to you I cry in vain
You are the river they say, tell us your name
Will I be able to explain?
I am like the river but not the same
I am one with river but never the same
They took away my name
You are the river they said
No I am not cried I in vain
Will I ever be able to explain?
The river that I do not belong
Tries to take me along
The more it tries the more I feel
The tug behind
I do not want to go
I want to stay behind
I know where I belong
Will I ever be able to explain?
I am somewhere I was never meant to be
I am someone I was never meant to be
Distant memories call me home
I want to go where I belong
I want to be where I belong
When the river meets the ocean
I dread, my dreams to be
Will be shred
For lost will be the river
Myself and all
In the ocean will I be my own?
In the ocean will I be lost forever?
Will I meet my own?
For now, all I know is
I want to be a stream
I want to be like I used to be
When all I wanted to be
Was a little stream-
A little stream with its own dream!
