When I 'lay me down to sleep', I believe
Tomorrow will become today again
For I ask the Creator guardians to deliver
Soul to Spirit before I get into another day
Of challenge, opportunity and exhaustion.
In my youth I knew I would awake and wonder
What new twists my natural unnaturalness
Would take; whose path would cross with mine
How a connection would play out
After work and before dawn
If someone would make-out and hold on or go?
In my adulthood the decision-making grew intense
While the choices I made would live to haunt me
And spell out another poetic response to ‘good bye’
Or‘what the’(!) , ‘oh Lord’, ‘no way’(!) , ‘gotta move’
Then came the break, the mental stillness, freedom
To go without recognition of divine guidance on
The presumption that speed was my only option
Crash(!) , bam(!) , come heal by the sea; the beautiful
And tumultuous sea that always brings calm to my
Repose and awakenings, again and again and again.
2012
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem