We All Live Downstream.

Nothing stays only with us.

The way we speak.
The way we treat people.
The things we create.
The things we leave behind.

They move beyond the moment
we thought they belonged to.

Like water,
what we add travels.
Some of it nourishes.
Some of it carries weight.
Some of it reaches places
we will never see.

We all live downstream
from someone.
And someone
lives downstream from us.

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We don't control
where the water goes.
But we do get to decide
what we add to it.

Add to the water
what you hope to find there.