Low profile and no frills

 

I’ve had my share of heartbreak, so I know

that extremes of emotions don’t endure, 

the pinnacles of happiness and sorrow

we reach today are left behind tomorrow

and time’s a poor healer, nature’s more sure.

 

The heart has an innate tendency to veer

back to the middle paths – plain contentment.

Not as bejewelled as joy, not as austere

as grief, just a low-profile, no-frills cheer,

easy to wear and not as quickly spent.

Well, it's hard to hang onto that low profile cheerfulness right now, mostly because I'm stressed about my friends in Bahrain, the Fifth Fleet is located there and might be a target. Palestine, Ukraine, Pahalgam and now Iran. The whole world's a massive battlefront. Not to mention flights plummeting and places of worship exploding with terrorists and sundry other disasters. 

These too will pass, everything does, but there's little comfort in that if what they will pass onto is a trainwreck. 

No time like the present. To practice the deep breathing and count to ten techniques. Look at flowers blooming, walk on hill paths, listen to the water somewhere. And of course, write/read some poetry.  Whatever calms things down inside the head and heart and ensures they carry on in spite of the chaos all around. 

Wishing you a calm, stress free week ahead.