People rarely say much
that means much.
But in the repetition
you hear rhythm.
Instead of running off to
find something new, as always,
you sit still for hours, waiting,
without knowing why.
The invisible red tide pushes
forward and back, forward.
You hear the ocean in your ears
along with old thoughts.
New thoughts try to emerge,
are knocked down, dragged back.
They can't survive for long in this air.
We find our balance by falling,
our strength in getting up again.
There's certainty in resilience,
release in floating out to sea.
You think your heart is confused:
this way, the other way, no--this way!
With each beat, another thought, old or new.
Each wave pushes and pulls the same.
Be led by that confusion.
Your heart is consistent.
Every beat is a new encouragement,
a new way of saying, repeating:
in this, in that, in all others,
in this one through eternity,
your balance is here, in this--
You are free. Be free.
Copyright 2007 Todd Mertz