The fluidity of water
Is cathartic to healing
For swimmers
Scuba divers
For those who love
To feel weightless
For me it's so much more
I'm not a lap swimmer
Though each week or two
I make a new goal to achieve
A new optimal
1 lap = a mile
A lap is technically to
The other side of the pool
And back
35 laps = 1 mile
My current
Optimal is 11 laps
My ultimate optimal
Is 35 laps
1 mile
Because each stroke I take forward
Each push
Each finish
I do it as another step
In my recovery
As well as for those who can't get
To a pool
To water
To peace
So when I reach
My ultimate optimal someday
It won't just be my victory
But for all of us
For now
I'll just keep swimming
Onward and onward
Forward towards
Optimal
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Rebirth (Book 4)
PoetryThis book starts where Survivor left off only from a much more changed stand point and learning and living one day at a time. That doesn't, however, mean that I am cured of ME or Myalgic Encephalomyelitis; which I was diagnosed with in September of...
