Emotional River
/The emotional rivers running
Inside you and me are different
Like water rivers with
Their unique sceneries of
Calm flows, torrents and waterfalls
Our rivers are with our own special
vigor of anger sadness fear
Surprise and happiness
Covert when quiescent
Overt once provoked
They feed on others’ flows
In return they feed back to others’
Time elapsed
Even hundreds of years
Distance apart
Even thousands of miles
Will not diminish the power congealed
From the great emotional rivers
Masterpieces like
Beethoven’s Fifth symphony
Homer’s Odyssey
Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa
Shakespeare's Hamlet
Continue to Imbue our rivers
With fine sentiments from these artists
Long after their demise
By Shih-Fang Wang
From: United States