Lifeboat

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves. - Thoreau

Last Titanic lifeboat picture

a slew of feelings

scads of drowning emotions

fill all the oceans

Author's Note

"We never exchange more than three words with a friend in our lives on that level to which our thoughts and feelings almost habitually rise." - Thoreau

Reviews

[Sami Khalil]

A scads of applause for this short but powerful poem. Loss when imminent can strike us with fear and anxiety. When our survival is at stake, it is flee or fright. WE clutch to anything we can find. WE press that panic button. I can go on and on.