Nadir

Nadir   3/23/2015

The top tipped over

And no one even noticed

A the water crested

And now subsides.  

Something’s are hard to measure

But that doesn’t change a thing

As eventually every hibernation ends

And we wake up. 

You can’t be a victim

If you choose not to be

And there is no victory in silence

Or fear.

Sometimes the greatest of actions

Start with simple words

And there is nothing more powerful

Than enough

Goodbye and No.  

It hurts to swallow your emotions

And let them boil inside

Harder to digest than broken glass

Churning in your guts

Like an acid bath. 

It always comes back up

And explodes everywhere

The wasted anger

Of passive aggression. 

But to resist calmly

Without malice

Enables the truth to be spoken

With strength and integrity. 

Let it bubble up

And become who you are

Unyielding like iron

From the inside out.