Jonah Wills Us To Swallow Own Calamities? Poem by Mark Heathcote

A fish has entered our minds
it mouths the words - you must swim
life is a great flood - you must swim
swim for your lives.

'A great flood is coming; be not like Jonah.'
But please also do not hide
swim, swim for your lives
swim out to meet this tsunami-wash tide.

Every ebb and flow is a watermark
adding new scales of sacrifice - survived.
'Don't count your battle scars.
Keep the faith, keep swimming; all will be revived.'