Too Easy to Drown

The problem is that one cascades on another,
dragging every loss ever experienced back out of the darkness,
a flood of them, and you find yourself living
in the drowning place, fighting cross currents
and the sharks of your own mind, voracious.

But, and you learned this decades ago ,
it is too easy to surrender and you are not,
you have learned, made for the easy way.
and so for a time you float with the current,
fully aware you are not strong enough

to fight it, but just as aware that you are the patient one,
the survivor, and if you can keep your head above water,
you will find, once again, firm land.

About this poem.

I tend to preach to myself when I write. Today, Iam in mourning. A flock of things hitting me, past and present. A bit overwheming. But God heals in the maelstrom. It is a lesson learnd the hard way (Aren’t they all?) All will be well.

Tom