Weathering the storm

Of my human affliction

Reasonable needs

Mixed with addiction

I find my eye

Fixed on the Sky

Of many happy returns…

Has mindfulness

Made me resilient

To the moments

Where I fall from Grace?

Where sea salt I taste

As down my face

Tears I trace

Leaving a glistening

Trail to my hurt

Or is it a tale to my heart

Where the beat

Stops and starts

Swirling in chaos

And confusion?

As I lift my eye patch

To see through delusion

Tied to the mast

That this, too, shall pass…

No siren song

Rhythm or throng

Shall steal me away

Today…

For by the guided breath

As I accept my death

I learn from the stern

To weather the storm

For Light guides

From deep within…