PART 3.
a vessel that sails
through rough waters
does not blame the captain,
nor the crew,
nor the wind that drives her.
and it is useless
to blame anything,
or anyone,
because the wind is not bonded
to anyone's bidding.
it is easiest
to call hardships
as failures,
and easier still
to place failure
on the self.
her course
(your course)
was chartered through
rough waters,
and at times
the wind had died,
leaving the vessel stranded
for deep ones
to gnaw at the flesh.
but she
(you)
pressed on
and never capsized,
unwittingly following
the inescapable current
of the universe.
and she
(you)
will call
this voyage a failure.
claim the ship didn't stay strong.
but
the ship never faltered.
the reality of her
(your)
situation is
that simply existing
is the lowest common denominator
between her
(you)
and hardships.
we cannot control
the course we take,
the current we're on,
or the wind or waters that carry us.
we can only control
how we decide
to weather the storm.
YOU ARE READING
Melancholia
Poetrypoetry takes us to so many places, and we take poetry to so many places. here are poems about places, and sometimes the people found in them.
