Sooner or later
you’ll have to go beyond
your go-betweens, when you do
be sure to thank them as you leave
and hold them in your heart,
because they will have loved you
as fiercely as you have loved them,
but even so, who wants to drink water
that has already flowed under the bridge?
Better to press on and find the source,
the high place, where the water gurgles up,
fresh and pure, from between the rocks.
DF. W-S 2005 XXXIX/V
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