earthly incarnational life

There are chaotic depths we must navigate

Wild churning seas

Littered with unseen wreckage and feelings

That we must fathom

Perceptions and intuitions and sensations

Emerging

Like so many dead fish slowly surfacing

Rising to the border where moving waters

Meet the kiss of air

Are touched sharply by a glimpse of sunlight

Dancing upon the surface

If I tend to keep moving and moving

Never staying any where very long

If I tend to find it hard to stop my

Heart beating wildly

My lungs becoming breathless

Don’t you know there is a reason?

Do not gaze on me with either

Contempt or pity

Try to keep an open mind

As I will with you when your behavior

Becomes such a mystery to me

Aren’t we all just trying to find some kind of way

To swim and surface with grace

To surface without drowning

To build a life raft to carry us

As the tides that swell and rise

And crest and break

Moving us all this way and that

Upon the constantly shifting tides

Of this earthly incarnational life