Feeling Nothing. Feeling Everything.

Breathe in.Breathe out.Repeat, until the pain goesAway, they say.Repeat, until the whirlwindStops blowing, andThe earth stopsCrumbling underYour feetAnd your heart stopsThrowing itselfAgainst the groundWith expectations you setBeyond what your heartWill endure.Breathe in likeIt is your only breath.Breathe out likeYou are already whole.Repeat. Even as youFeel nothing, yetFeel everythingAt the same time.

Orca.

Waters lapped,Currents swirled,Beneath my feet a worldBlossomed ripeLiked a fruit for plucking.Scattered light twirledIn an iridescent showerOver the surfaceOf my body, a flowerFloating on the ocean,Drifting in the bloom.I was alone yetI was whole in the wombOf the water.I tread lightly as the spiritRose highly,Black and white andRight and mighty.The orca of my dreams,Gliding within