. Oh that but my life’s
turbulent wake, that
crease of self harm,
sealed, and calmed
to a sea of tranquility.
Oh for the wisdom of
hindsight and not red
rag the winds with my
sails arrogance, filled
with an invisible enemy.
Oh but for this tacking
course I charted, never
yielding or conceding to
forces of nature greater
than all my persistence.
My genuflecting bow has
been keel hauled in surf,
my decks waterboarded
yet I refused to let go my
feeble grip of the tiller.
A stern faced insistence
without a moral compass
to guide me, still, I search
for that elusive tranquility,
on the island I left, and lost!