Help Me

Feel The Coolness On Your Skin
As You Set Beside Me

Close Your Eyes And Be Lost in Thought
As You Listen To My Murmurs

Be Chilled To The Bone
As You Dip In My Pool After A Long Days Hike

I Don’t Require You To Help Me
I Will Still Keep Comforting You

I Need Help Though, For Many Like Me
Are No Longer Pure

Your Kind Has Polluted The Forest
And Others Like Me

Some Waters No Longer Have The Purity
To Sustain Life Therein

Though You Be Only One Small Voice
You Can Help Me

For I Too Start Out Small And Narrow
Way Up High On The Mountain

But As I Go Down The Mountain
I Gain Size And Flow

I Keep Going Around And Over
All The Obstacles In My Way

I Go Till I Reach the River
Where I Become Large And Wide

The Rivers Keep Joining Together
Larger And Larger Till They Reach The Sea

From The Sea I Can Then Circle
The Whole Earth

If You Spread My Plea
It Too Will Grow Around The Earth

It May Not Be Much At First
Like The Spring I Come From

But Your Voice Will Be Heard Far And Wide
If Only You Will Speak

Speak And Help Me Stay Pure
For All Life Depends On Me

©2008 Gary L. Suddath

Due to a successful brook trout restoration program, for the first time in 30 years, anglers are now able to fish for brook trout in park streams of the Smoky Mountains. These streams were once ruined by logging. The brook trout was also rooted out my non native rainbow and brown trout. Our waters are precious for our life and all of natures, help keep them clean. This image was taken on the Roaring Fork Motor Nature Trail, Great Smoky Mountain N.P.

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