Sailing Across the Ocean

To my far away family,

my mom, my sisters, my brother, 

my aunts, my uncles, my cousins, 

my grandmother, My In-laws

Often thinking of you

Hoping you are well

Many waves of the ocean are rocking my boat

at the moment

I'm sailing across the Atlantic

in a row boat

The ocean threatens to swallow me

without judgment

or scorn

but only because 

that is was the ocean does

I see the waves come over may head

they crash down on me and 

drench me their raw energy and power

the force pulls me and pushes on me

I release and let go

having no control over the outcome

knowing that I am just a particle of dust in this universe

but I feel blessed to have been hit by the wave

Blessed to have been obliterated

by the majestic sea

Somehow I always bob to surface in my

little row boat

I start again on my journey

sailing across the ocean