Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom which animates all whom it floats, and you are without effort impelled to truth, to right, and a perfect contentment. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Swimming against the current is tough, of course.
Going with the flow? I’ve done it all my life,
but not catching the right flow, the desired flow,
the one going where I want to go. I always figured
for that it was necessary to swim against the current.
But that was from fear. I had to be in control
so I stayed near the bank, near the eddies,
the flotsam, the whirlpools. I’m learning.
Not to be afraid. Not to believe I can only rely on me.
To look around, to figure out where I want to go
and who can take me there, to latch on
and to be carried in gentle arms to a perfect contentment.