Biding

Faced with a riptide

or a vortex

Be calm —

There’s less to gain by thrashing

than by tuning in

and waiting for your moment

It’s OK

if you go down a little more

before you surface

There will be something you can use —

An eddy, or a bottom to spring up from

Or a gravitas within,

more weighty than 

the surge can heave,

to separate you from the fray,

release you from its inundating force,

let you reclaim your footing

and your course.

©Wendy Mulhern

December 23, 2014