just a moment

This?
This is just a moment in time
The slap of that freezing wave is one moment
The warmth of that ray of sun on my shoulder is one moment
The cold and the heat are not better, one or the other
They are just moments

Existing
Passing

Even the storm, brewing on the horizon and sweeping across my calm ocean, whipping the wind through my hair and threatening to upend me into the depths…

A moment
Existing
Passing

I exist
My hands and feet dangling over the sides
feeling the currents ebb and flow against the surface of my skin
I exist
each moment passes and

I exist

I am at home on this ocean of feeling
at home in the untethered liminality of tides and currents
of the storms and the still…

I exist –
not despite the moments
but because of them

Each wave that rises unexpected and breaks on my head
Each leaping creature that breaches beside me
The terror of a dark shadow passing slowly beneath me

Each moment
existing
passing
leaving behind the opportunity to become
to exist

I exist