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**Swept Away by the Undertow**

*There are difficult times when every thing pines
for the familiar pinch, that outgrown garment*

*like Tagore’s caged bird unsure where to perch in the sky
disoriented by freedom and longing for the safety of bars*

*rather shame-faced, maimed, handicapped than pretend
to outdistance a past that is unappeasable presence*

*days when hollows ache, and the desperate fiction
of the moment can hardly persuade body or mind*

*or rainy weekends, when the heart prefers to curl up
replaying old movies, soothed by the rich melancholy*

*and drowning, voluptuously, in womb-like reassurance
of a warm bath, or the water-world of memories, dreams*

*scornful of good advice, blessings, and flotation devices
unreasoning, unseeing, ears sealed for all the din within*

*only to remember, in sober hours, there is no stepping back
into the same river twice, or homecoming for the Homeless.*

©[Yahia Lababidi](https://www.amazon.com/Balancing-Acts-Selected-Poems-1993/dp/1941209378)
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[Underwater sculpture by Jason Taylor](https://www.underwatersculpture.com/)
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Below, is some melancholic classical music you might find cathartic:
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https://youtu.be/E4l5sXC3Lu0