Winding Around

Winding around and around

I cover a large area

Sometimes calm, 

And sometimes enraged

Fish call me their home

Along with Crocodiles, Frogs, and Beavers

But after the humans came,

All I’ve been is polluted and dirty

Filled with plastic water bottles, biscuit packets, and a rubber ducky too

I pair with the weather

When it’s calm, I’m calm

When it’s fierce, I’m fierce

I can carry things miles and miles away

Sometimes I connect to the ocean, my big brother

I really do break hearts and cause tears like lakes

I am a river

Winding around and around and around…