Navigation

Between a screaming dense forest

Of yesterdays and tomorrows

Lies an ocean

‘An ocean within a forest?’,

you ask.

Yes, an ocean, ever so still.

To dive, you need no gear

Nor do you need to know how to swim

You’ll see it takes more than swimming

To gleefully drown

in utter silence.

Way to this still ocean

is facile, they say

Yet, many halt to take a nap

But this time around, I am sleepless.

This time around, the body is my map.

And breath, my navigation.