How to Glean Tranquility?

Stress is omnipresent

It's brazen and sneaky

often gate-crashes —

always entering through

cracks and crevices.

No matter how impregnable

your fort may be,

tranquility needs coaxing.

It is very important

for a life of peace,

so we have to put effort

to invite it in.

of course by

sustainable means

So, I take my tea,

stroll in the garden,

make arts of all kinds,

go for daily nature walk,

watch flora and fauna

with mindfulness

read and write a lot,

and that's how

I glean my tranquility,

consciously, bit by bit.

For it is the antidote

against the sabotaging stress.