Secret of Calm

Sometimes

I get hit with a massive wave

like a brief tsunami

... sometimes not so brief...

a rumbling under the surface

shaking the ocean floor.

A disturbance,

or perhaps a shift towards a greater equilibrium.

The ocean below sends a signal:

THIS is unfinished

so tend to it

and pay attention,

because it remains unsolved. 

and every heart beat that sends currents of blood through my body

and waves of thought into my mind

and breath of life into my chest

reminds me of this force of nature that has no reckoning

administering a pulse, a shockwave

a reminder of the longing.

The vast, dark, imperceptible depths can't conceal

what exists within my essence

as if to whisper through trans-continental winds,
"Remember Me."