Like a Bayou

Mangahao upper dam, Manawatū

When it comes, your life emerges strong and true like a bayou - quiet and still.

While you are used to ignition energy, the poets say: quiet strength - that thing missing from so many places.

It is what will show up because you have been paying attention.

Because you are leaning in as only you can to the fray, to the melee of what you do not understand.

You just have to feel, and make sense of what you have been longing for all your life.

This is coming, is arriving like you knew it would - in a way that is essentially you.

In a style that has you written all over it.

In a feeling that is without a doubt the way you wanted to feel: easeful, gentle, open hearted, ready and willing for anything to happen.

….for any way to open.

for any person to walk into your life and you say:

“Yes! Here it is, there they are - and, there is no doubt, but love.

Like that, like a bayou.