Tracing Rivers

Your frailness

The veins, thin filaments

Visible

Just under the surface

I trace with light touch

Three rivers

As if faintest pressure

Might stop the flow

Did you know

Some cacti

Survive years

Without water?

Have adapted

To rainlessness.

Still bloom.

But you?

It has been years.

Would anything

Be better

Easier

Than this?

Even drought?