Kaleidoscopic Tempest

For every action
there is a reaction

         ( evaporation distills
              into deluge)

For every certainty
confusion

         ( stillness transforms into funnel cloud)

For every somnolence
vigilance

           (the eye gives way to the storm)


We who work so hard
to create balance
are forced to live
in the battle

We who desire peace
are forced to live
in the anguish

Listening to thunder
standing in the rain soaked night
allowing bodies to become
chilled to the bone
we are invited to
move into shelter
take up the dry
oversized cloth
rub ourselves down
offer massage to the "other"