A Dream of Peaceful Days

Astounding how the smallest of things can set off such a chain reaction

Before I knew it my life as I'd known it became so subtly

Changed in ways both meaningful and

Discombobulating as I tried to

Effortlessly, excruciatingly, exuberantly

Find a path, now facing forward so

Go on then, take this chance

Heal and reinvent

Imagine worlds

Just beyond reach

Knowing that in consequence

Laughter is the

Medicine most sweet

Never quite entirely full

Onerous winds wait around the edges

Pretend they are not there and maybe someday they won't be

Quest for questions, ponder the possibilities

Rest in the perpetually roiling restlessness

(Secretly wishing for something just a little different)

Tired of the dilapidated structures falling down around my feet

Understanding it's only for a time

Verily, very soon

When there's a space for winding down & contemplating what I'd become

"Xeric" for thriving in lack of water, "Xenial" to host at last

You can visit me in the balmy existence I am dreaming of, and I may finally

Zzzzzz with the ease of a carefree confidant who lends her ear all afternoon