Through to Beyond

I was once told My life is the perfect storm But the perfect storm Is perfect only in its destruction And the hate the people use To cheer it on Surfing the waves and chasing the risk Fighting the undertow will only tire you Then suck you under When the fight goes out Drowning you beneath the polished boards On which the hateful tribe stands The only way to get out from under Is to welcome the rain Understanding that it allows the waters to grow endlessly Until their vastness is all that can be seen It is not by waiting until you are beaten down Until the fight fizzles with the rest of you That you will win But by moving on Through the rain until you have left it far behind Then though it feels like days end You will find the glory of another sunset And moonrise The gentle wind coaxing a smile From the blankness that pain let settle And as stars twinkle in the heavens like jewels Those who ruled with hate Will come to rest on the seafloor lifeless You no longer below them To hold their weight above the surface And keep them anchored to shore

Natalie Frank (Taye Carrol) has had her poetry featured in several anthologies including Untimely Frost. Her fiction has been published in Haunted Waters Press, Weirdbook Magazine, Siren’s Call Publications, Lycan Valley Press and Zero Fiction among others. Her collection of poetry, Disguised I Breathe, In Love I Hold, can be found here on Amazon KDP Select.

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