I LOVE this poem and the visual of the water. As you likely know, emotion is often represented by water.

My first time through it, however, I was gently bobbing on top of the sea, wafting off into my thoughts.

My second time through, I was in my retreat, lost in meditative thought. I loved where the lines, "i am both exhilarated and terrified . . . i could drown or be utterly freed," took me. What lurks in the shadows of our thoughts can feel so real. It can also, sometimes be very scary. And it can switch ever so quickly between emotions. Most of us will flee when thoughts deepen or darken. But to stay the course, get beyond the judgement, fear, and limited meaning that we put upon them . . . to THE truth, OMG! It can be so, so very freeing . . . An example: When I first started my personal development journey I felt like a black cloud followed me. When I thought about it, it was very scary. At first it felt like a horned monster taunting me in my mind. As I faced it, over time, it got smaller and smaller. I eventually came to realize that it was the face of the rage I had so long carried inside me . . . EXTREMLEY freeing! I faced it. I did not drown, and I was SET FREE!!!

Fabulous read!!!

Two very small suggestions:
1. Consider changing the last line to, utterly be freed.
2. Consider using capital letters

Write on,
Cyndee

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