steady, a deep long breath
that reaches your fingers and toes
and brings every jagged vibration
to a stable hum, and blow it out
just as easily, like sending
a folded letter across a still pond
to my love who waits at the shore
with cool lemonade and pen in hand,
don’t rock the paper boat,
don’t capsize the balance,
just steady with the message
that I am at equilibrium now,
my troubles are done tearing
through the fields, all is steady,
steady as untouched water.