Phoenix Rising

Swimming constantly upstream

Against the cold and sweeping currents

Arms and legs tired and heavy

Struggling to keep my head up

Trying for a breath as my nose lifts

Stop fighting the flow

Instructs the world around me

How when where I need to be is upstream

Relax into it instructs the universe

Close my eyes let the currents carry me

But now the waters changed direction

I’m swimming against the currents again

How can I trust the flow

When the flow keeps pushing against me

And the course keeps changing

How do I flow

When it’s all flowing against me?

Phoenix