Go Deep
Go Deep
...to find within you the stillness.
I feel like a wave
being pushed forward
by an invisible hand,
my swelling resistance
adding to the momentum
as I slowly rise and curl,
then crash headlong
back into myself.
Wave after wave
grows from within,
compelling me
into certain collision
with everything
water touches.
I am so tired
of the back and forth,
of the slow building
and the sudden ebbing
of my precious energy.
I just want to go deep
and lie low in the stillness.
Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves
that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
~ Langston Hughes
