Hurricane

Written on October 12, 2024

Do you know what it feels like 
to lose 
everything 
and then realize 
that it really 
wasn’t 
anything 
at all?

To lose everything you own 
but simultaneously understand 
that it had nothing to do with you. 

To have your husband 
still standing by your side 
and your son still safe in your arms.

Do you understand 
the gratitude 
that comes with losing everything 
and nothing?

To know in your bones 
that the water didn’t take you 
and it could never break you. 

Do you understand the freedom 
that comes when the things you own 
can no longer own you?

And in the eye of the hurricane 
everything
and I mean 
every   thing   
that ever really mattered 
never 
ever 
left. 

And it never will. 

Would you trade everything for that?