Dawn On A Tremulous Sea

A poem about an emotional recovery.

Like an unmoored buoy

In a night sea storm

Plunged drowning into devouring seas

Spewn suffocating into howling gales

Seared by lightning that

Harrowed drenched heaven

 

Going on for going on's sake

Without direction, time, or hope

 

I come abruptly upright, sodden, dripping

 

The sea is restive

Night pearls to faint light

A clear wet breeze

Scurries chastened clouds

 

I breathe and ride

A wobbly stability

On shirring wavelets

Catching my breath

Alone on a tremulous sea.