Afterwards, what I kept pondering
was the jewel in the storm,
the calm that could only be discovered
amid the raging, the peace
the storm brought out
by failing to ruffle it
even in the least

This is a thing to know about,
this is a thing to remember
even in lesser storms,
and when there’s no storm at all.

©Wendy Mulhern
August 29, 2019