Wave

In the wave comes

With force of feeling

Inundation of tidal swell

All the history that surrounds me and you

Like a torrential well

I drown inside

Or the power of a vortex

That takes me down

Sometimes

The memory of what we endured

Eclipses everything

But if so

How is that

On some days

Alone again

I feel so free

So released from all the pain

That we both knew

Now long gone

Where as for years past

I feared that I would never survive the flood

As wave after wave of memory hit

Taking me down

Am I rising now

Because it feels I finally can see

Some days

A calm clear horizon

Stretching out

In front of me

Infinitely

Rich with the pregnant possibility

Of a new way of living

Freed from all that past

Upset, confusion, powerlessness and pain