States of mind

States of mind will come

And some will then leave you behind

There is a flood of energy that comes

With the feeling

That you cannot ever be rescued

From what you feel

And so you must surrender

Even when the world turns black

For a while

With no way to see the path forward

Back to light

And yet after one or two hundred nights

Who knows if a fleeting happiness may not come again

There is a path that wends its way forward

And the best we can do is accept to travel it

Come what may

Even when it is impossible

To see around the bend

Keep moving forward

Accept the delays

Know that things do change

And that with time

States of mind

Will come and go

Sometimes elevating us

Sometimes leaving us

Abandoned within the flow

Of life’s ongoing energy