by Carolyn Chilton Casas
It’s hard to grasp.
How one day is innocence
itself, calm waters to the horizon,
broadcloth sails billowing
against a coral sky.
The next, you’re diving
for cover,
canon balls plummeting
all around your boat,
and the comrade you thought
had your back
has left on the only raft,
leaving you wounded and alone,
conjuring easy seas
of the past.
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Carolyn Chilton Casas is a Reiki master and teacher whose favorite themes to write about are nature, mindfulness, and ways to heal. Her articles and poems have appeared in Braided Way, Energy, Grateful Living, Reiki News Magazine, and in other publications. You can read more of Carolyn’s work on Facebook, on Instagram @mindfulpoet_, and in her collection of poems, Our Shared Breath, as well as a forthcoming collection, Under the Same Sky.