Everything shifts with the push
and pull of tides.
Wood, stones, glass get sucked
out, and the waves give back sticks
of smooth-edged driftwood,
pebbles to hold in our hands,
rounded pieces of colored glass.
Like the sea, I want to be open
for the world to pull me in.
What can be made softer
will be revealed
with love and attention.
What cannot be changed,
I will learn to release,
let it sink steadily
to my ocean’s deepest ridges,
where the resilient things live.

(originally published by The Mindful Word)

:: Carolyn Chilton Casas

By Carolyn Chilton Casas

Carolyn Chilton Casas has lived on the Central Coast for 55 years, the perfect landscape for a love of hiking and playing beach volleyball. She is a practicing Reiki master and teacher who often explores ways of healing in the articles she writes for energy and wellness magazines in several countries. Her poetry has been published in numerous journals and anthologies including “The Wonder of Small Things: Poems of Peace and Renewal” and “Thin Places & Sacred Spaces.” More of her work can be found on Facebook or Instagram and in her second collection of poetry, “Under the Same Sky.”