The Flow*

There are currents that arrive heavy—
dense with shadows,
sharp with echoes we never asked to carry.
They come disguised as our own,
settling in the chest,
pressing down with the weight of storms long past.

But the river does not keep what doesn’t belong.
It reminds us, with every turning bend:
movement is survival.
Release is truth.

So we learn to unclench.
We loosen the grip on what was never meant to stay.
We watch the dark water slip away,
fading into distance,
becoming nothing more than memory
in the widening sea.

And as the weight dissolves,
something else arrives—
softer, clearer, alive.
It is the flow that does not wound.
The tide that carries warmth instead of burden,
clarity instead of noise.

This current is not loud.
It does not demand.
It rises gently,
like breath after silence,
like light spilling through fractured clouds.

In its presence, we remember:
to let go is not to lose.
It is to open.
It is to create space for the only energy
that was ever ours to begin with—
the kind that heals,
the kind that steadies,
the kind that lifts us forward.

The river moves,
and we move with it.
Not bound,
not broken,
but carried*