sailing vessel

world of pain

I live in you

I swim the inky channel of grief,

non-linear as it is,

from a single point

or multiple points of view

I won’t capitulate

won’t condemn

won’t be rendered powerless

world of joy

I live in you

reveling in sense pleasures

sound, sight, smell

I taste the world and feel its touch

peace washes over me

I engage life’s sweetness

resist ennui

generate energy of presence

world of equanimity

you live in me

I need to find you

there, abiding with suffering

and the calm

there in veils of tears

and in euphoria

at the end

I wish to be a sailing vessel

moving smoothly

and fully balanced

in the breezes --

not a ship that

lists

one way

or the other

© nan, 2015

[Written for last weeks Sunday Whirl... a week late, and also for Poets United.]