On Storms and Suns and Moons and Stars

Weathering the Storms

The winds lash you and whip you

The waves lift you up

and crash you down

It is stomach churning

You feel you can't take another wave

Or another trough

Just please let it be one or the other!

But no

On they come

Up, up, up you ride the wave

Terrified because you know it will peak

And then the crash down into another trough

Please make it stop, you beg
On your knees you plead
Please just make it stop

But on the wind whips you

And on the waves and troughs

Take you up and down

God, make it stop

Please make it stop

You look about you

Your ship is battered

Your sails torn and shredded

How can this go on?

How much longer?

Impossible

It is impossible

Clearly impossible

So battered and broken

Such relentless storms

And wave tossed seas

And then the sea beckons

The only way to escape the seas

And the storms

Is to succumb to the seas

Let them take you under

Then it will stop

Peace will come

But wait!

There is the moon!

If you could just use the light of the moon

Maybe it will guide you to a safe port

The seas and winds calm

Yes, there is hope

Your heart rises

So you gather your courage

Get the best out of your battered ship

And on you sail

There is no port but there is the moon

And some stars

The day brings some sun

These will surely guide you to safety

You have weathered the storm

Then you feel it

The seas are rising

You turn your eyes skyward 

to look for guidance 

But you see no moon, no stars, no sun

The skies have darkened

The winds are rising

The seas churn again

And that slim sliver of hope
That had sustained you
Vanishes under the waves
Torn away by the winds
Clouded by darkness

Your stomach churns with the seas

Feeling every wave

Every trough

The frothy waves and fierce winds

Have become you

You look inside

And feel you have become

the storm
Have become the darkness

You are in the storm

and have become the storm
And the darkness

Nothing is as it was

Who is this dark monster inside you ask

How can I let this be?

And again the seas beckon

Come to us, they say

We will take it away

No! You cry

Yes, it replies

Only the sea can drown your pain

Your suffering

Your sorrow

Only the sea can calm the storms within

Your eyes scan the seas and skies

Looking for signs

A sun, a moon, stars

Part of you knows they're there

Lights in your life

Yet the skies are so dark

The seas rising and falling

and churning your very soul

And the sea beckons

But we are there

Your sun

Your moon

Your stars

I know you can't see us

I know how hard it is

But behind the clouds

Those terrifying dark stormy clouds

We are there

Just weather this one more storm

Just weather this one more storm