Float

FLOAT – B. Capes-Flanders

The water is deep and your feet are far from the ocean floor.  

The ocean is angry.  

Here you are, treading water.

Out in this storm.

The waves keep coming, coming and coming.  

Some are small;

easy to bounce through.  

Others are large and cover your head and for a moment, you struggle to breathe.

You keep treading water.  

You are so strong.

You just keep going.  

However,

I can see it.  

I know it. 

I feel it.  

You 

are 

tired.  

YOU NEED TO REST.

I wish I could toss you a life preserver or tell you that the rescue boat is moments away.  

YOU NEED TO REST.

The reality is that the life preserver isn’t here, yet.

YOU NEED TO REST.

The rescue boat is a distance away.  

It is still so tiny on the horizon.  

YOU NEED TO REST.

There is more water to tread, so please;

please…

Take time to…      F              O                T. 

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Lay back, look up, and let yourself…      f                      t. 

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For a minute, an hour, a night, a weekend.  Even the strongest among us NEED to take a moment to just…

                                                                                                                                                                                                            float.