The Ganga
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The Ganga does not know our names—
it has been running too long for that—
but it has carried the prayers of ten thousand years
in its cold and patient current, fact by fact.
At its banks the oldest rituals happen,
the ones that need no screen or ceremony—
just the river and the person and the reverence,
the water that was there before the testimony.
Whatever you believe or do not believe,
stand at the Ganga and be made small—
the river runs beyond our small requiring
and that, in itself, is the answer to the call.
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The Ganga does not know our names—
it has been running too long for that—
but it has carried the prayers of ten thousand years
in its cold and patient current, fact by fact.
At its banks the oldest rituals happen,
the ones that need no screen or ceremony—
just the river and the person and the reverence,
the water that was there before the testimony.
Whatever you believe or do not believe,
stand at the Ganga and be made small—
the river runs beyond our small requiring
and that, in itself, is the answer to the call.
