A current flows from me to you
Through every sound the silence drew;
It moves through tone through pitch through care
And makes the unseen everywhere
The voices meet the waters blend
They lose their start they lose their end;
No single mouth no single stream
Just one vast hymn of shared esteem
The language fades the meaning grows
The river hums through what it knows;
It carries grief it carries song
It makes the weak of speech belong
It widens wide it turns it bends
It finds the sea where all transcends;
Through every tongue through every choice—
The river speaks in joined-up voice