I am a storm.

Sometimes a hurricane

Sometimes freezing rain

Sometimes blazing heat

or dust.

~~

You love like a sunny day;

You love me all straight and narrow,

~~

while I love winding and wide

with no signs, no directions.

~~

And sometimes I’m spinning

Gales and sheets of rain

reaching miles beyond me,

stirring up the water – 

~~

And you, with unbreakable mast,

sail directly for the center-

Not merely surviving, 

but arms open wide, sails full of wind,

head thrown back,

smiling as the drops hit your face

like the tempest is beautiful.

~~

You point at the heart of the storm 

without speaking-

knowing its power,

condensing the energy,

pointing it in the right direction.

~~

The heart of the storm

is the heart of me

and you’re not afraid,

so neither will I be.

~~

deb linne