A feeble attempt at poetry....:-)

O to be born a river!

Flowing through valleys

of mountains unscaled;

Dancing past the deepest

forests unreined;

Carressed by the torrents

of the rains unleashed;

to flow to the beckoning

arms of the sea

O to be born a river!

O to be born a tree!

knowing the passion

of winds unseen;

gazing at nights

at the starry skies;

feeling the warmth

as the sun unfolds;

drenching in the love

of the pouring rains;

O to be born a tree!

Woe to be born a man!

Bonded by birth

to wings clipped

before they soared !

Woe to be born a man

and live unknown

of where the rivers flowed

and the lions roared !

and trees that a thousand

stories withhold!

Woe to be born a man!