human
Please generate a brief description of a depressing scene outside a wilderness stream with a bridge.
assistant
The thick growth of rushes finally stops at the edge of a swiftly running stream, straggling out into the current in a ragged fringe. A derelict bridge crosses the confluence, its timbers a haphazard shamble spanning the arched support beams. The handrails of the bridge must have long ago given up a battle against the elements, for only a couple of splintered posts still cling to their original mooring on the bridge's sides.