Loose Connections
Striving is now available in the May 2020 issue of Loose Connections. Featuring voices from the EDS community, Loose Connections e-mag is the source for original content by those with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome & HSD. Loose Connections also provides current information on medical advances in EDS and updates on the activities of the Society.
striving
I’ve been where you are
treading water
afraid to rest for one moment, knowing
that to stop would mean to drown
tattered rags hang to your legs
love-woven tethers bind and drag at your limbs
I can see the sea’s fast-building torrent
snatching your vision, breath, heart.
trust
underneath frothing tongues and dragging tides
it eases
slip under
drift
let go of the flotsam you cling to
let the current take you
rest those sinews and struggling bones
beneath the churn and drama and that skin-clawing undertow, the water is clear
and even from the blackest depths
if you lay back and look up
you can see sunlight
silence and sunlight
eyes open
eyes fixed
on that dappling light
that pure peaceful joy
your own heart will melt the weight from your body
let you float to the surface
and beyond
into sun-soaked sky
and you’ll wonder how you ever got so
burdened
so tear-weighed and heavy
that sad fingers pulled you down
and you forgot you were meant to fly.
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