The Absence of Drowning
When saltwater fills your lungs
it is hard to see what everyone else becomes
it is hard to see the stars glittering above
The darkness the absence of light not the absence of love
Even in the dark that hope still glittered
Even with all things considered
Not unwanted, unloved, or unsafe
Not drowning and gasping with each crashing wave
Hopelessness is often used to constitute as something permanant
Something more significant
Something raw and broken
like it isnt just a token
A pass for what is to come
When all fear will seem like a pathetic sum
When a laugh will feel like the center of your world
Not the uneasy underworld
not the thing you began to fear
Someday you learn to hear
Someday you will learn to see your beauty in each mountains curve
the beauty noone but you can perserve
Through your light
How hard you fight
through how much kindness you spread
making sure that fire is always fed
So you can keep on saying when it gets too much
"You are Enough, You are Enough, You are Enough"
Until you learn to believe it.