I wake to this feeling so often,

Sometimes the dread, a given.

A part of my life now I navigate,

Can’t really lay my finger on it,

An old adage sometimes plays

Itself out in a quest for normalcy.

I realize every day I have a

Challenge, to find comfort

In my daily life, my struggles

Always apparent, but not 

Enough for me to drown.

Yet, these winds are my own.