You know how it is when the moonlight glows more than the gold-filled sun and softly caresses your skin
It’s when the tide lowers to reveal beautiful pools of life hidden between entrenched boulders
It’s when you swim oceans in a day, that you come up gasping for air, wishing you’d have surfaced for a breather
It’s when you cover that same time and distance following the tide that you can catch your breath and keep your head above the water
It’s the small and steady strokes in time that will get you to the other side of your Olympic sized dream
It’s when you throw your head back and see a straight path behind you when you really swam a lifetime to get to where you are
It’s when gravity runs its course and you collapse under the weight of your own shoulders that you know it’s time to take a step back
It’s when nature is telling you to take it low but nurture is pushing you to rise back up
It’s when life’s ups and downs meet at a place called routine and you just tread through it to survive
But you know how it is when the moon's gravity pulls again and you come down from where you were up in arms
It’s when the tide lowers that you get to plant your feet into the ground and wade the waters
It’s when you get a chance to withdraw that you can reset before the tide rises again