I Know Now

 

Questioning~

Wondering~

Wonder of faith? ~

Wonder of enough faith? ~

How do I know?

 

Sunny sultry drive~

A winding bending road.

Swerving intentional stop~

At the opened half moon off the path~

A scooped out safe niche~

And that was that.

All piled out~

I usual last to unload.

Over seeing~

A top a steep downward~

Beach dusted drifting hill.

Further an ocean swayed~

Out-stretched as a rolling blue pearl.

Ahead they rambled~

Hastily scattering~

Quickly to out skirts~

Of a soggy tanned shore.

I looked to see~

Their bodies~

Already bobbing~

As round bobbins~

So relaxed and cheery.

They a-top deceptiveness~

With an unannounced~

Questionable danger~

In the turquoise sea.

Oh~

I yearned to be~

Where they be!

To be joined~

In their~

Gleeful camaraderie!

 

Waves! ~

Large! ~

Warning! ~

Most certainly could~

Over take!

 

Hesitant~

Yet hopeful~

Looking for a~

Safe entrance to~

Enter my place.

 

If only there was~

A break~

I too could be~

In their surrounded~

Calm wake reverie.

 

Alas! ~

A threat less way~

One foot~

Than another foot~

Forward!

 

 

Down! ~

Downer~

Down Deeper~

I sink~

I sunk!

 

Oh! ~

Whoosh~

Whooshing~

Whooshier~

I descend!

 

My body turns~

Whirls~

Whooossshh~

Whooo~

Waa~

Wa~

About the Silence.

 

Twirling~

Rolling~

Head up~

Nor down!

Confusion~

Guessing~

Where? ~

What?

 

The Logic does not panic~

Reason holds arms up~

In positive-ness~

To be up~

To surface~

To flag for help!

 

This could not be the end? ~

Surely someone will see~

And rescue me!

 

Whooosh~

Ahhhh~

The top!

Watery shells crest!

 

Arms flying high above!

 

Head second~

A gulp of air? ~

Or a swig of wet?

 

WWWOOOSSH~

Dived~

Swallowed fast again!

Devoured~

The body consumed~

With the mean angry~

Force furious-err than before~

There was nothing I could do~

To defend!

 

Cadaver revolves~

Rolled~

Inside out~

Or~

Outside In!

 

Reeling! ~

Whoooshhhing~

Hearing near~

Hushing.

 

Only the sea~

Me~

Whirled beneath~

And out~

Ousted~

Bottomless~

Farther~

Deeper down kept!

 

This is the end? ~

The end of me?

Me?

How could that be?

 

Now only me~

And the whooshing quieter marine.

 

 

Yet! ~

Split seconds~

Of reckoning~

With death~

And me!

 

Be still there is a presence~

A company I know~

There~

There beside me.

I am not alone.

 

Panic!

This is it!

Too late!

This is it!

 

Seconds~

The logic mind now says~

“If this is my death Lord~

Do not leave me alone!”

 

“Lord do not I beg You~

Leave me here alone!”

 

“Please Lord make sure~

You take me with You!”

 

Terror! ~

“I want to be ~

With You Lord!”

 

“Please do not leave me here!”

 

Whooosh! ~

Whhoooosssshhh~

Whhhiiirrrlll~

 

The body now limp~

Now given in.

 

~SUSPENSION~

~PEACE~

 

“Alright Lord!”

“Your Will be done!”

 

 

Whoo-aaashhh~

Who-ash~

 

SPIT OUT!

SHOVED!

PUSHED!

 

Crashed to the lava rock! ~

Scraped! ~

Scratched! ~

Banged! ~

Smashed!

 

Struggling~

Cold horrid hardness~

Grasping~

 

Climbing swift! ~

 

Even faster past~

 The wet coffee shore~

 Smooth!

 

Up I scramble! ~

Up I fight! ~

Up I thrash!

 

To finally reach~

The high hilled~

Hot beach sand!

 

Gasping for air~

Coughing liquid from~

Everywhere!

 

Expelling~

Wheezing~

Desperately greeding~

For breaths calm.

 

Resting~

Now those tubby boppers~

Without a care~

Sunbathe~

Ignorant~

Totally unaware.

 

First shock~

Than anger~

As fear still~

A system stunned.

 

Relief~

Peace~

Astonishment of a miracle~

Conformation of Knowledge~

A faith affirmation~

Amazing~

Life altering~

 Epiphany!

 

Enlightenment~

 

I question now not.

I wonder now not.

I know now~

Faith is sound and for sure~

My faith is enough~

I now know the~

Will of the Lord!

 

 

By Lisa J. Warner

(Lisa Luv)

 

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