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Rushing Water

February 25, 2010
By megss09 PLATINUM, Abilene, Texas
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"When all else is gone, God is left. Nothing changes Him."

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I don’t think I can hold you here much longer, but maybe your faith will keep you here. My links are slipping beneath this rushing water, but maybe your faith will keep your head above. I feel your hands slipping, too. Don’t let go of me, and I won’t let go of you. Or maybe, just maybe, your faith will do that, too. Keep you from slipping, keep you from drowning: all with the same two hands.

What do I know?

I’m just a chain, but right now I’m all that you’ve got, your faith and me. So, like I said: don’t let go.

© Hailey J., Lake Oswego, OR

The author's comments:
I wrote this during one of our daily writing sessions in my Advanced Composition class. We were supposed to look at MSNBC's A Week In Pictures, and there was one of a man that almost drowned in the Ganges River.
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Milo! said...
on Mar. 12 2010 at 6:01 am
I really love this. I really like how everyone can relate to this. I hope you keep writing, because this is great. You should check out some of my stuff. I think you would like it.