Things fall apart
    then reassemble.
Life unravels
    then weaves back together.
The water overwhelms
    then recedes.

This is always the pattern;
    we've lived it 1,000 times,
    survived it 1,000 times.

Yet always
    between the disaster
    and the recovery,
    between the spill
    and the cleanup
is a point of despair,
    of "It will always be this way"
    and "What's the point?"
rarely "This too shall pass…
    like all others have passed."

This too shall pass
    because things do.

Text and image © 2014 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved.