soft moment

Susana Spears

"The softness inherent within most moments is often undiscovered by restless minds and spirits not centered or grounded by an element capable of doing so..." - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 2.18.13

ANCIENT OF DAYS

Susana Spears in black dress & heels 4

The Negro Speaks of Rivers

I've known rivers:

I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow

of human blood in human veins.

My soul has grown deep like the rivers.

I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young.

I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep.

I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyramids above it.

I heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln went

down to New Orleans, and I've seen its muddy bosom turn

all golden in the sunset.

I've known rivers:

Ancient, dusky rivers.

My soul has grown deep like the rivers.

~ Langston Hughes