Flood Waters

I don’t know why I sat there

and fed myself footage

of tsunamis, and police brutality,

and travesties of justice,

don’t know why I kept watching

when up till then my day had been

so positive

I don’t know why I then got impatient

and wrote a note that brought a bad reaction,

don’t know why I seem to want

to escalate it

I will refrain. I will

take myself to bed. I will

wait until morning. Maybe

by then the flood waters

will have subsided

and I’ll see a clear path.

©Wendy Mulhern

April 9, 2015