The Boat-rocker
—Originally Featured in Fleeting Moments of Fierce Clarity
also featured in Vagabonds and Sundries
Image: “Drowned” by Alessandro Bonvini (Flickr)
I overturned
The boat once
And nearly drowned.
Coughing up
The heavy waters
I choked upon,
I lay limp.
Rescued,
Part of me died
In the storm.
Gasping, the defiant self
Was the victim
And the pragmatist
The survivor.
A boat-rocker once,
I am left to fear
The open waters,
Stranded on
The barren island
To which my trauma
Confines me.
I stand quietly screaming,
Yearning for cause
To revive the wild ways,
To take a stand as I once did—
Fearless and fierce amidst churning swells.
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