Sea of Emotions

I am awash in a stormy sea of emotions
Rising upon the peak of a wave
Only to come crashing down
Into the valley of the next
 
Lightening strikes across the sky
And for the briefest moment
Illuminates all around me
Only then to be plunged
into darkness again
 
The cold fresh rain beats down upon me
And along with my tears
Mix with the salt of the sea
 
Emotion like a wave crashes over me
Holding me under till I gasp for air
With an insight I arise from under
Gasping the sweetness of life
Only to have the next wave sweep me under again
 
I grow weary with the struggle
But I am a survivor so I know the storm will end
And I long for those calm seas again
But then I think of the irony for
I long for the excitement of the storm.

Larry Mixson,  Nov. 2, 1999