Dirty Rivers

Bridget Tully is an undergraduate student at Aurora University pursuing a Bachelor's in English. She writes more stories in her free time, but she finds writing poetry easier. Bridget also wants to do what she can to save the environment, including our forests and rivers.

Water fills deep holes

And absorbs dirt, leaves, and moss

To become black mud.

The mud flows downhill

Through the dug path it takes up

With help from the wind.

The mud becomes green

As it adopts leaves from dirt

And sets them all free.

Black and green liquid

Flow past people who step back

And turn away fast.

People disappear

But the liquid keeps moving

For green leaves and moss.