flow control

pour
from my soul
unimpeded

try not to foresee
the erosion
and other
collateral damage

or the valve will shut
again.

the surge is bound to be
powerful,
leaving things
not
as
they
were

holding back flow
creates issues of its own;
less noticeable, perhaps,
but destructive.

differently destructive.

would be better had the original

natural

flow

been left to go
where
it
willed

or where gravity
willed
it
to
go

in the first place.