Monday Poetry: THE ROMAN TRIPTYCH: I. The Stream - 2. The source

Here is the continuation of John Paul the Great's poem: The Roman Triptych.  Here he meditates from the stream itself to its source.


2. The source
The undulating wood slopes down
to the rhythm of mountain streams....
If you want to find the source,
you have to go up, against the current,
tear through, seek, don't give up,
you know it must be somewhere here.
Where are you, source? Where are you, source?!
Silence....
Stream, stream in the wood,
tell me the secret of your beginning!
(Silence—why are you silent?
How carefully you have hidden the secret of your beginning).
Allow me to wet my lips
in spring water,
to feel its freshness,
reviving freshness.