THE UNION

If ever these two rivers should meet

And follow together a course

I’m sure the people looking on

Would want to know its source

Once they’d see a river so white

Then a river so black

And wonder at gray waters that flow

Without ever going back

They’d trek up and down the length

Of the merged waters that they’d see

And ask why they’re together headed

On a headlong journey to the sea

But the rivers follow their own path now

Towards a future none can see

Ignorant of the confluence ahead

Which is their destiny