sometimes

sometimes…
I wish to wake
to find it was all a bad dream

then the nightmare of reality
dawns…

my heart is heavy
but beats relentlessly
and life, my life
goes on…

after...2.

low tide
…….. numbed 
…………….. becalmed
………………………beached
stippled ripples, small splashes
then currents swell
without warning
downpours
a tsunami swamps
bubbles burst from the depths

after
in the silence
ponderous paddling
to keep afloat

no forecasted pattern for this sea