Peace of Mind Sonnet
There lives a calm no storm has learned to break,?
A stillness older than the rising fear;?
It waits beneath the heart’s persistent ache,?
A whispered truth the weary soul can hear.
I loosen grip on all I cannot steer,?
Release the weight of futures undefined;?
The present breath becomes my anchor here,
?A simple vow to guard the fragile mind.
I learn that peace is not the end of care,?
Nor absence of the world’s untidy seams,?
But strength to meet each hour as it is there,?
Unburdened by the weight of “what it means.”
So mind grows still, not empty,
yet aware—?A sky that holds both
silence and its dreams.
I turn away from turmoil,
swell, and crowd
?To where the self
no longer needs to hide.
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