River Run

Mighty river,
for millions of years,
you have roared
through this passage
of ancient rock-walled chasms,
green with weeping.

Salmon return each fall
to make their perilous passage,
in endless imprinted struggle
to survive, to overcome:
like us.

Again and again, 
the attempted impossible leap,
falling back to gather strength
to leap again:
like us.

River, roar
your message of endurance, 
power, survival:
mighty river, gateway,
challenge, pinnacle.
Home.

for Sumana's prompt at Midweek Motif: Rivers