Random life

When my body is calm again

When the waves of that wild ocean within me

Suddenly subside

And the internal tide

Becomes still once again

Then I see the landscape cleared

Of fear that possessed me

So utterly before

Then I realise

How unequal I so often felt to this life

That seemed to take so much

And left me gasping

On the edge of crisis

And new possibility

And it is said

That life is only

Understood backwards

And that the wisdom we seek

Must so often be birthed from error

And yet then the paradox is

Was it really error or education

That lead us to

That abandoned beach

Where we found ourselves

Washed up by

The restless unpredictable tides

Of this random life