Rivers Poem by Angela Brown

I know rivers
Dry, salty rivers
of the Congo, Euphrates
and Nile rivers
Deep rivers
Deeply rooted
flowing blood, bleeding
through my veins
Rivers soiled with
bloody rivers
I know rivers
Deep severity rivers
of the Mississippi river
that embodies the lives lost
in the slave trade
flowing deeply invested
in painful rivers
bloody rivers
cold blooded
rivers
I know rivers
that runs so deep, once removed
from the Atlantic, racy thoughts
suicidal, lost, forbidden truth
overboard I once lay in the ocean
of anxiety, the fear of dying
calling out, searching,
wanting to escape
to be free, free
flowing from captivity
flowing for my life
flowing within my soul
Crying rivers
flowing rivers
severity rivers
I know rivers
that flow deep
they are seeing rivers
who tell the stories
lying mercifully
deep social
rivers
I too
know of
rivers