Echoes Within

The self’s starlit sea

Gives respite to the heart’s tempest

When the mind’s meteors arc,

Searching resistance to gravity’s pull.

Life maneuvers through bliss and misery

Like the slow-motion dream of a lightning bolt

Dancing across the shores of answers.

Yet…

Flesh and bone prod senses within

To ignore the thunder,

Escape the wildness,

Even as the inner self

Echoes our uninhibited bravery

Like all existence…

To respect the vibration,

To allow the storms beneath one’s surface

To cleanse and evolve anew.

For…

Is not life too precious,

Too gifted,

Too short,

To hasten an end?