not always a serene serendipitous flow
at times startling surprising saturated
with submerged highs and lows
sensation of sailing and sinking
shipwrecked stranded
exposed
as mind’s eye is flooded with images
of existence’s many what-ifs as if arising
on a tidal river current reversing flowing backward
unsettling sediment of buried history refuting revision
it is what it was time and tide have not altered it
the joys the sorrows the passions the regrets
the successes the failures life’s trash and life’s treasure
unconsciously salvaged manifesting as sensory
seeing hearing tasting touching feeling
a recognition of self comprised of
former selves swimming swimming
swimming in a stream of consciousness
somehow surviving startling and surprising
