Flow Me Back Home...for Beth

She was born near a river

The river lives in her, still

One day, return to it

She will

And she will sit along the banks of her past

While melding with it the future 

like rapids, raging on so fast

The water healing her heart like loving sutures

The land she left

Is the place her soul dreams of 

When Peoria is her address once more

We'll see again, prayers answered from above

The river calls her home

Home to Illinois

Where she can be closer to her roots

And the heart of our native boy