100 Word Challenge - Swollen

What follows is in response to the 100 Word Challenge, usually authored by the larger-than-life Velvet Verbosity, but temporarily hosted by me, here. The word today is "Swollen".

And I know exactly where your pervy minds went. Well, some of them, anyway.


The River

Each day beaks upon the shore
sweeping over us and we
little pebbles that we are
rise and fall on the beach
in rhythm

The river of time
swollen with pebbles
trapped in the current
rushes toward the great sea
where all mix together
and storms drive the waves
toward the shore
where pebbles are

And each day breaks upon the shore
washing new pebbles onto the beach
and sweeping old, worn pebbles away
to deep places and dark
where the rhythm of waves
is no longer measured

But the river of time
still swollen
still rages
to the sea.


Ndinombethe.