Calm your worries and feed your dreams
On most days
She wakes up hours before I do
She jumps on my chest
Searing pain
Breathless
On most days
I’m too tired to take her to the park
She barks at me
Begging
“I’m boooored”
I can hear her thinking
On most days
I know she deserves more
She looks at me
She tilts her head
All the leverage she has on me
She cuddles
She wants to be loved
And I know I have to be the best me
So that I can be the best for her
#FOWC word of the day “leverage”
Sitting upon the dock one day
I stared out into the ocean
Deep blue waters
Swelling with each wave
And appeared such a notion
The fear of what is down there
Underneath the billowing sea
The fear of what is buried, deep inside of me
What creatures linger ?
What monsters hide ?
As I cry my tears into the brine
What may jump out as the waves flux in ?
Flux out?
What secrets lie in that sharp-toothed mouth?
As I stare forward into the offing
See the tide rise
And rise
I think about the ways
I am like the ocean
About the deep things
That I hide inside
I think about how the current washes up
The undesirables
And the depth
renders them untouchable
they feed and they grow
yet they lay dormant
undetectable
Sitting upon the dock that day, I feel the waves rock me
to and fro
I wonder what the ocean thinks of me
knowing all I know
Never Silence the Madness 