Modern Life

Sometimes all around me

Tumultuous waves rise

As the choppy landscape

Takes me down

There is no center to me at all

Just and amalgam of thoughts

That cascade and cascade

Like a terrified waterfall

Later after I take the risk to push on through

Finding ways to bring beauty to my life

Seas feel calmer

Through taking action for this moment

I have found for myself a place where

I can rest

Within an atmosphere renewed

And cleansed

Not too long ago

A dappled tiger butterfly danced

All around me in circles as I ran

Shaking off old energy

Then it is I feel them

Even when I cannot see them

Drawing close

Angels that love me

Even in my time of deepest despair

Whispering to me

Silently

Words of courage and comfort

I know I will often feel alone

And become overtaken by sensations

I do not fully understand

And yet if I trust in the tumult

Perhaps in time it will pass

Lately I do have the answers for anything at all

All that I can do is

Surrender my being

To this difficult dance

Containing so many errant rhythms

That seems to be

Modern life