all five rivers
are hidden deep beneath
traversing through caves/traversing the underground
into a sunless sea
in the twilight of the fathomless depths
streams fall into gaping chasms
endlessly shaping structural patterns
remnants of primeval aeons
the only thing casting shadows
are fluorescent beings
prey of troglobites
evolved in isolation
if you drink from its water
everything you are and
ever will be is forgotten,
meandering through
hollows and narrows
eventually floating down
into the allembracing voidance,
the relicts of time, pressure and erosion