Originally posted 10/31/2011.

Ripple
this age
Throw
yourself into it

not for that instant
when you will be
target or 
bullseye of target

but because 
as others join you
the circles will
turn to full disturbance

Then what you’ll be
is immersed
What you’ll be
is in it

for the long swim
Part of the stream
the flow
the flood

You might drown
You were drowning anyway
Make of your body
a best chance to survive

if not for yourself
then for the one next to you
struggling
to breathe